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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.


Charles de Montesquieu
In general, I don't even have the luxury of rehearsal time on most films that I make. It is just a scene-by-scene full cast read through. It's very much just doing the rehearsal sometimes the day before, at the end of the day, but just on the spot as the scene unfolds.
Wes Craven
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I was put into office by the people who believed in my idea that corruption is the root of poverty; that an end to corruption would mean an end to poverty.
Benigno Aquino III
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We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury.
Franz Beckenbauer
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Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.
Grace Abbott
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An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.


Plutarch
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I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.


Loretta Lynn
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I know that government doesn't have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead, the ways to end poverty come from all of us. We are part of the solution.
Kathleen Blanco
There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.
Robert W. Welch, Jr.
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My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.


Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.


Richard Powers
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I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.


Martin Short
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!


George Eliot
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I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the violence, the poverty and the desperation that Mexico is living through.
Enrique Pena Nieto
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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.


Andrew Young
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You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.


Lady Gaga
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.


Golda Meir
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.


Henry Ward Beecher
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Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.


Dodie Smith