"Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness."

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#Luxury Quotes #Riches Quotes #Poor Quotes

“Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.”
“Leave the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole”

Source : "Naomi Klein kick-starts the activism at Copenhagen with call for disobedience" by Bibi van der Zee, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2009.
“In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection. Indeed, they will be receding faster than the speed of light, so detection will be impossible. Future civilizations will discover science and all its laws, and never know about other galaxies or the cosmic background radiation. They will inevitably come to the wrong conclusion about the universe......We live in a special time, the only time, where we can observationally verify that we live in a special time.”

Source : YouTube Channel "Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science"/"'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009", www.youtube.com. October 21, 2009.
“I'll usually run an ice-cube over my skin to close all the pores. That's pretty much my daily routine.”
“For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.”
“Honestly, my character doesn't have much in common with Harry Potter besides the fact that he's an unlikely hero who's thrown into a huge situation.”
“Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.”
“As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything.”

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