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Letter "A" » affluence
«The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market.»
Author: Daniel S. Greenberg
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Science
| Keywords:
academe, affluence, ascent, cloister, cloistered, cloisters, councils, excitable, fluctuate, fluctuating, nouveau riche, rapid, riche, scientific community, tends to
«Affluence was, quite simply, a question of texture ... The threadbare carpets of infancy, the coconut matting, the ill-laid linoleum, the utility furniture ... had all spoken of a life too near the bones of subsistence, too little padded, too severely worn.»
Author: Margaret Drabble
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affluence, carpets, coconut, coconuts, furniture, infancy, pad, padded, subsistence, texture, threadbare, utility
«My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.»
«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.»
«We must learn to provide affluence without effluence?by consuming less from the environment, not more. We can use less, and have more. Consume less, and be more. The interests of business, and the interests of environment, are not incompatible.»
«In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.»
Author: Denis Diderot
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advancement, advancements, affluence, be well, conceal, corruption, display, efforts, exceed, fortunes, Gods Themselves, imaginable, Inhabitants, mask, national, number the, ostentation, outward, ruin, small fortune, small number, The Gods Themselves, The Mask, The National, twinkling, vain, vanish, vice
«Affluence means influence»
«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.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
affluence, as such, Order of, pool, soothing, the West, The Western, uncontrollable, Western
«Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.»
«He is now rising from affluence to poverty.»
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