"Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor."

-- Henry Home, Lord Kames

#Luxury Quotes #Giving Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?”
“The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.”

Source : Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “Palace of Desire: The Cairo Trilogy”, p.19, Anchor
“A white leftist Mexican activist isn't the same in the media as the son of a farmer in Guerrero, they aren't worth the same. In the same imaginary of the Latin American Left exists a racism, a racism that corresponds to processes of colonialism internal to almost all countries in Latin America.”
“Our government shouldn't tell us where to travel and where not to travel.”

Source : "US move to end Cuba travel restrictions", www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2002.
“I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.”
“People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.”
“This whole generation of parents - I'm guilty of it too - does too much for their kids.”
“My guitar is my torch, my soul carries the flame. Make no mistake, I'm a true blues man.”

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