Conveniences Quotes
40 quotes by 37 authors
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house…
— Abraham Cowley
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It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite…
— Winston Churchill
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What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Miserliness has its own conveniences, otherwise nobody would be a miser. If you are not a miser, you become more insecure. If you cling to…
— Rajneesh
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A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the…
— B.F. Skinner
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Time... is an essential requirement for effective research. An investigator may be given a palace to live in, a perfect laboratory to work in, he…
— Walter Bradford Cannon
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While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in disputes about Hebrew…
— Benjamin Rush
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I believe that the telephone and telegraph and other such conveniences were permitted by the Lord to be developed for the express purpose of building…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of…
— Camille Paglia
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Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions…
— Raoul Vaneigem
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A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget. Every taxpayer and his family will have more money…
— John F. Kennedy
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We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.
— Anna Brackett
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Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or the other or both parties to a marriage contract. Someone is thinking…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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A too great disproportion among the citizens weakens any state. Every person, if possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of his labour, in a full…
— David Hume
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I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences…
— Althea Gibson
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It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing of the common…
— David Livingstone
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Chaos is but unperceived order; it is a word indicating the limitations of the human mind and the paucity of observational facts. The words ‘chaos,’…
— Harlow Shapley
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The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience; you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the…
— Hector Hugh Munro
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Love, for too many men in our time, consists of sleeping with a seductive woman, one who is properly endowed with the right distribution of…
— Ashley Montagu
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But what is the way forward? I know what it isn't. It's not, as we once believed, plenty to eat and a home with all…
— Laurence Gonzales
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