"Affluence means influence." — Jack London
"Affluence means influence."
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95 Quotes by Jack London
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to…
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just…
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the…
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.
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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze…
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A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold…
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More Affluence Quotes
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Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next…
— Ray Charles
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The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own…
— Samuel Johnson
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The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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There is no question that Francis was in advance of his age, as he anticipated all that is liberal and…
— Henryk Skolimowski
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A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for…
— Ludwig von Mises
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It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it…
— J. William Fulbright
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It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state…
— Thomas Paine
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A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control…
— Joan Didion
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It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned…
— Rich Mullins
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From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to…
— Henri Lefebvre
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I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.
— Dallin H. Oaks
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