Conveniences Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties. — Anna Brackett
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
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
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
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
Chaos is but unperceived order; it is a word indicating the limitations of the human mind and the paucity of observational facts. The words â€˜chaos,â€™… — Harlow Shapley
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
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
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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