Quotes with affluent

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• In the affluent society no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessaries.

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  American economist (1908 - 2006)
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• Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.

  Bill James
  American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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• The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only - not from its privileged classes.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

  Hubert Humphrey
  American politician (1911 - 1978)
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• I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

  Maya Angelou
  African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• professionalism
• responsibility
• commensurate
• attributed
• existence
• standard

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