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Affluence creates poverty. -- Marshall McLuhan
Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine. -- Ray Charles
Affluence = abundant flow. -- Eric Butterworth
He is now rising from affluence to poverty. -- Mark Twain
Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security. -- Suze Orman
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable. -- Tacitus
Affluence, unboundedness, and abundance are our natural states. We need only to restore the memory of what we already know. -- Deepak Chopra
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort. -- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families. -- Jeremy Rifkin
Affluence means influence. -- Jack London
I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence. -- Lee Child
Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us. -- Tim Jackson
With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it. -- William Blake
In recent times no problem has been more puzzling to thoughtful people than why, in a troubled world, we make such poor use of our affluence. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
In this era of affluence and of permissiveness, we have, in all but cultural areas, bred a nation of overprivileged youngsters, saturated with vitamins, television and plastic toys. -- Judith Crist
Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face. -- Alexander Pope
In my experience, the more people have, the less likely they are to be contented. Indeed, there is abundant evidence that depression is a 'disease of affluence', a disorder of modern life in the industrialized world. -- Andrew Weil
Affluence includes money but is not just money. It is the abundance, the flow, the generosity of the universe, where every desire we have must come true, because inherent in having the desire are the mechanics for its fulfillment. -- Deepak Chopra
The 10 ever greatest misplacements in life:1. Leadership without character.2. Followership without servant-being.3. Brotherhood without integrity.4. Affluence without wisdom.5. Authority without conscience.6. Relationship without faithfullness.7. Festivals without peace.8. Repeated failure without change.9. Good wealth without good health.10. Love without a lover. -- Israelmore Ayivor
A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye. -- Joan Didion
Under capitalism the more money you have, the easier it is to make money, and the less money you have, the harder.Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. The affluence of the rich supposes the indigence of the many. -- Adam Smith
No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate? -- William Wilberforce
Try as much as you can to mention death. For if you were having hard times in your life, then it would give you more hope and would ease things for you. And if you were having abundant affluence of living in luxury, then it would make it less luxurious. -- Umar
Wherever I go, and whoever I encounter, I will bring them a gift. The gift may be a compliment, a flower, or a prayer. Today, I will give something to everyone I come into contact with, and so I will begin the process of circulating joy, wealth and affluence in my life and in the lives of others. -- Deepak Chopra
It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these values, we do so at our peril. -- J. William Fulbright
We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. 'We buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like.' ...It is time to awaken to the fact that conformity to a sick society is to be sick. -- Richard J. Foster
Practicing the Law of Giving is actually very simple; if you want joy, give joy to others; if you want love, learn to give love; if you want attention and appreciation, learn to give attention and appreciation; if you want material affluence, help others to become materially affluent. In fact, the easiest way to get what you want is to help others get what they want. -- Deepak Chopra
For the Left, affluence is won, not earned. -- Dennis Prager
My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence. -- Sarah Waters
Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient. -- Jesse Schell
The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant. -- Charles Jencks
What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence. -- Jonathan Miller
Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself. -- LeRoy Neiman
We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off. -- Peter Singer
When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and famous rock stars, politicians, people who have tremendous power and affluence. It's not in my DNA, but certainly I have been exposed to it. -- Billy Baldwin
I had hoped that foreboding economic circumstances would have caused the ultra-rich to think not just of themselves and increasing their own personal affluence. Unfortunately, however, too many of them lack concern, and without this concern, the divisive imbalance will only worsen with recession. -- Jamie Johnson
We talk a lot about infrastructure in cities, and it's talking about highways and it's talking about trains, but I think more important to people who are low income is, how do I get from here to there? How do I become part of the affluence that's surrounding me? -- Katherine Boo
Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live. -- Shimon Peres
Verily, affluence brings anxiety! -- Anne Ellis
True affluence is not needing anything. -- Gary Snyder
True affluence is to not need anything. -- Gary Snyder
The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence. -- Indira Gandhi
Spiritual influence never coincided with material affluence. -- F. F. Bruce
It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence. -- Augustus William Hare
The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life. -- Wendell Berry
Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence. -- Louis O. Kelso
It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation. -- Samuel Johnson
the unfortunate have claims upon the hearts of those whom God has blessed with affluence ... -- Eliza Parsons
The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality. -- Richard J. Foster
The state has typically been a device for producing affluence for a few at the expense of many. -- Murray Rothbard
I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time. -- Dallin H. Oaks
Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do. -- J. I. Packer
Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day. -- Walter J. Phillips
There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Greatness is in influence, and not necessarily in affluence. It is not achieved by being a 'paper millionaire', but by being a 'people millionaire'. -- Ogwo David Emenike
Labor is the source of subsistence, capital is the source of affluence. My idea is to make everyone a capitalist, and therefore, financially secure. -- Louis O. Kelso
We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty. -- Dorothea Lange
What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty? -- Samuel Richardson
The secret of achieving prosperity lies in so vividly keeping yourself centered in the inner focus of affluence that you literally exude the consciousness of it. -- Eric Butterworth
We are not satisfied with peace alone. There has to be prosperity, there has to be affluence, there has to be fulfillment in life, not just peace. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake... No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of misery. -- Maurice Strong
The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which abort technology's affluence producing potential. -- Louis O. Kelso
A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence" that it bestows upon the common man. -- Ludwig von Mises
we steal with our eyes closed to the conditions in which the poor, who make our affluence possible, live. We covet what our neighbours have and want more of the same. -- Karen Baker-Fletcher
Deliver me from the long drought of the mind . Let leaves from the deciduous Cross fall on us, washing us clean, turning our autumn to gold by the affluence of their fountain. -- R. S. Thomas
New York is a city where it's particularly hard to be poor, not only because everything costs twice as much as it does elsewhere but because over-the-top affluence is part of its identity. -- Anna Quindlen
Most of us have achieved levels of affluence and comfort unthought of two generations ago. We've never had it so good, most of us. Nor have we ever complained so bitterly about our problems. -- Mario Cuomo
The West has enough technology, enough science, enough affluence, enough money, but something of the inner is missing. There is no peace, no silence, no joy, no bliss, no meditativeness, no experience of godliness. -- Rajneesh
Donald Trump connected with the American public because they wanted to be like him. They aspired to be just like him. They wanted to see all of his affluence, and he let them see it. -- Omarosa Manigault

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