#luxury

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

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Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile. ↗

— Christy Mathewson

#automobile #baseball #evil #fans #follows

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it. ↗

— Ted Morgan

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If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

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To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt. ↗

— Olivia Newton-John

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Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful. ↗

— Edmund H. North

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Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#every #everything #luxury #must #paid

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving! ↗

— George Eliot

#know #luxury #must #poor

I grew up thinking of snow as a luxury you visit. ↗

— John Landis

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