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“Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get. ”
“...luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world. That...”
“And yet for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. It is no mean happiness, therefore, to be seated in the mean. Superfluity comes sooner by whit...”
“Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”
“Luxury items are those things that are mass-produced by a third party and marketed to us to purchase so that we can express our individuality. ”
“Sports has always been a pass-through. You pay for something, and then you pass it through to television, you pass it through to advertisers, or you pass it through to season-ticket holders, luxury...”
“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.”
“Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.”
“It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.”
“Film gives us the luxury of deciding where the viewpoint of the audience is, and by knowing that, we can very effectively design around what is actually seen on camera.”
“The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.”
“Never forget that the truest luxury is imagination, and that being a writer gives you the leeway to exploit all of the imagination's curious intricacies, to be what you were, what you are, what you...”
“In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.”
“The old 7 Series, the E38, was an elegant car, an evolution of the classic BMW look. But it wasn't penetrating the luxury market as we desired. It just didn't have the presence to be noticed.”
“And what I thought most about was luxury. I had never realised before that it is more than just having things; it makes the very air feel different. And I felt different, breathing the air: relaxed...”
“In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.”
