#luxury

Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify. ↗

— Evan Davis

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Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

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The greatest luxury is being free. ↗

— Manolo Blahnik

#free #greatest #luxury

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#architects #luxury #many #reject #significant

We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#family #friends #how #important #live

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

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But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people. ↗

— Patricia Clarkson

#good #good films #great #great people #had

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge. ↗

— George William Curtis

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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#doing #doing good #exert #giving #good