#affluent

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp. ↗

— Alex Campbell

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As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families. ↗

— William Glasser

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The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event. ↗

— Janet Suzman

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The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfilled through history and through the rise of American power. And to some degree, it probably is. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

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Would you rather be affluent, or influential? I’d rather be fluent in the language of love. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

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But you know, if you live an affluent lifestyle, there are all types of trappings that are there that you have to be cognizant of, and you've got to try and communicate freely and gain understanding about and then keep moving on, because you know, sometimes lifestyles are chosen for us as opposed to us choosing them. ↗

— Julius Erving

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The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

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