Quotes with comforts

  • Trips to Mars, the Moon, even orbit, will require that we provide astrotourists with as many comforts from home as possible, including paying each other.
  • There are certain comforts of living here in Dubai, the comforts of so many mosques and so much good food... It's just that much more secure. And may God keep it safe.

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  • Benjamin Franklin Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Alexis Carrel Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Brooke Shields I'm so adamant that being a really good parent does not mean you have to be there 24/7. I find that I'm never not thinking about where they are, but instead of it stressing me out, it comforts me to know that I'm completely aware of their schedule, and they're with someone I trust.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Alfred Marshall It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Samuel Rutherford Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.
    Samuel Rutherford
    Scottish Presbyterian pastor, theologian and author (1600 - 1661)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Francis Bacon Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Edward Dahlberg The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts - the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria - are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Cat Stevens There are certain comforts of living here in Dubai, the comforts of so many mosques and so much good food... It's just that much more secure. And may God keep it safe.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Benjamin Harrison There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.
    State of the Union Addresses of Benjamin Harrison
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Carl Sagan Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bernard Mandeville Thus Vice nurs'd Ingenuity,
    Which join'd with Time and Industry,
    Had carry'd Life's Conveniences,
    It's real Pleasures, Comforts, Ease,
    To such a Height, the very Poor
    Liv'd better than the Rich before.
    The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 197, p. 11
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Samuel Johnson To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Trips to Mars, the Moon, even orbit, will require that we provide astrotourists with as many comforts from home as possible, including paying each other.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Robert Browning What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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