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Letter "C" » conveniences
«Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement.... The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.»
Author: Adam Smith
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conveniences, delicacies, delicacy, employed, food supply, improvement, liking, lodges, lodging, lodgings, necessities, niceties, nicety, procured, procures, procuring, supply, tastes
«Today convenience is the success factor of just about every type of product and service that is showing steady growth.»
Author: Charles G. Mortimer
| Keywords:
convenience, conveniences, factor, just about, showing, steady, type
«The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
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Problems
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at times, comfort, controversy, convenience, conveniences, measure, moments, stands, The Ultimate, ultimate
«The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience; you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other»
Author: H. H. Munro
(Novelist, Writer)
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Fashion
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Catholic, conveniences, frame of mind, just now, mediaeval, picturesqueness, roman, Roman Catholic
«The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire»
Author: Hermann Hesse
(Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Nobility
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bourgeois, consuming, convenience, conveniences, deathly, prefers, temperature, temperatures
«What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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additions, aqueducts, canal, canals, conveniences, edifices, joined, public utility, public works, roads, tops, utility
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