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It was beginning, at last, to dawn on them that the Livingsons had done more for their little village's affluence and reputation in just the last twelve years than anyone else had done during the length of the village's long history
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If, in these places, therefore, the labouring poor can maintain their families in dear years, they must be at their ease in times of moderate plenty, and in affluence in those of extraordinary cheapness
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If the labouring poor, therefore, can maintain their families in those parts of the kingdom where the price of labour is lowest, they must be in affluence where it is highest
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If the labouring poor, therefore, can maintain their families in the one part of the united kingdom, they must be in affluence in the other
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When profits are high, that sober virtue seems to be superfluous, and expensive luxury to suit better the affluence of his situation
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For one very rich man, there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many
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The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy to invade his possessions
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Addendum to the above: Happy as many parents were to provide a higher standard of living for their children (motivated in part by parading affluence), these ―selfless‖ acts seldom elicited an appropriate level of gratitude or appreciation for their self-sacrificing efforts
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soap”—what the hell good was affluence? You think you’re going to live off memories?
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Malthus missed living at a time that would eventually come—namely when affluence inversely impacted the size of the family
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Affluence came with the generation of wealth
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Affluence is on the rise around the world
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, had proven that affluence enabled both the finding of new energy sources and methods, as well as cleaning up the environment
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marriage, to affluence, I imagined that the next thing will surely
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civilization of great affluence, and one which respects trade
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She felt warmer as she prepared supper, comfortable in her new affluence
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Ladies-of-the-night, it was said, preferred to enchant their prospective angels in that bar as their escorts had already advertised their affluence by going there in the first place
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served similarly to a memorial depicting the prestige and affluence
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To say it was a life changing experience from the affluence Betty and her family had known was an understatement
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Last year and the early half of this year is about preparing for affluence and success – being psychologically ready
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When this affluence manifests physically and tangibly, you will be able to handle it
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Once a person learns how to access this ever-present supply, the doors of affluence will always be open
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For Egypt was a land of affluence
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He had originally assumed that Lord Ashburn had come from wealth, but evidently Lady Jane was the real source of prosperity and affluence in the marriage, though her husband was apparently well-off in his own rights even if they were not as substantial as her own
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patrons of that establishment were of some degree of affluence or
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reminded, yet again, of just how important affluence was to the Sphere Of
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loved his affluence yet hated him at the same time
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North London had never yet reached the same standard of affluence as the more central Islington or the suburbs to the West
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affluence has been chosen above love and happiness
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the outward show of City affluence, ceased to attract me
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Helga was astonished at the affluence the Rosenzweigs
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in the days of their affluence takes pity on them
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didn’t really see or hear anything that suggested affluence
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They were stupefied on hearing this news which would save them from the humility of want and disgrace and turn their lives into ones of affluence, happiness and plenty which they could never have dreamt of in their entire life
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Looking at the affluence of the clientele, I wondered which were the nigger nazis, because they all looked the same to me
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The newspaper continued with an account of Tim’s childhood with his mother in a one-bedroom apartment in central Sydney, contrasting it with the affluence of the Paget household
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If you require Wealth, a realization of the fact that the “I” in you is one with the Universal mind, which is all substance and is Omnipotent, will assist you in bringing into operation the law of attraction, which will bring you into vibration with those forces which make for success and bring about conditions of power and affluence in direct proportion with the character and purpose of your affirmation
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Affluence within is found to be the secret of attraction for affluence without
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affluence and importance within a British Empire
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The only question is how long it will take for its wealth, ease, affluence, and corruption to destroy that nation from the inside-out… as Rome was from the outside-in
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with affluence, and because the modern world has become appallingly mercenary and superficial
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If you could take away all the advantages each athlete has: from the advantage of size, birth, training, time, affluence, education, love, support, help, status, power, etc… then pound-for-pound: you could easily determine who is the most courageous athlete
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The result of accumulation and industrialization around the world has created a normality in which 100’s of millions of people have become used to affluence
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Yet, this affluence is an ecological and human imbalance
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While ecosystems are in crisis, while most of the world’s population remains poor and destitute: this affluence has become the worst addiction that humans have created for themselves as a buffer separation between them and the natural world
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But if their affluence increases: are they happier? Are they any better off? What is gained and what is lost? Are they running towards something, or are they running away from something? They are running away from their problems
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But the American youth during the 60’s and 70’s were already corrupted by their own drug culture and their own greed and their own affluence
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If all corporations were dissolved and their wealth was equally distributed among all humans, the physical standard of living would rise instantly to an unheard-of astronomical level of human affluence all around the world
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The Industrial revolution created too much affluence for both the lower and middle class
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There is the flashiness and affluence of Europe with many of the shortcomings of the Middle East such as a ponderous bureaucracy and the mentality of the 135
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The mass of brainwashed humans exist only as their slaves: locked into the western capitalist robber baron model of cultural greed, corruption, consumption and affluence
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An affluence which is now eroding steadily as these elite criminals suck the entire world dry of money
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They control the masses through mass manufacturing, mass media, mass propaganda, mass advertizing, mass news, mass entertainment, mass brainwashing, mass affluence, mass terrorization, governments, corporations, secret organizations, secret alliances, secret conspiracies, secret plans, secret agendas
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It is the Dream of attaining a comfortable life of affluence, protected in the safety of a house used as a fortress to keep everyone else outside at bay
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Raising children and brainwashing them into becoming upwardly mobile, by raising them up to a higher standard of physical ease called shopping, affluence, consumer culture
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Germany gained back its own self respect and its former industrialized affluence
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Each rise in power gave that ruler-elite class-tribe-kingdom-city-nation-empire more ease, more wealth, more power, more affluence
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And each time; that increase of ease, that increase of wealth, that increase of power, that increase of affluence, that increase better tools was precisely the cause of their downfall: every single time without exception
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If the lower classes are given the slightest bit of power or affluence: then they will start hungering for more
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they will start becoming hungry for more power, more wealth, more affluence, more control
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Only when levels of greed, selfishness, affluence, power, status and knowledge rose among the masses… destroying the integrity of their communal villages: that exclusive love began to be practiced by the masses as the elite practiced it
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Most consumers identify themselves by the relative affluence of their consumption
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It is a selling image of leisure, affluence, ease, good-times, socializing, and cultured elegance
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As a cheap, affordable vice denoting affluence
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This made Holland blossom into materialistic affluence; as the first Protestant nation whose masses were not ignorant, starving, and poor
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Poor Europeans who became affluent: took on the vices of affluence; simply because they could afford to take them on
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after such a depression with an entire class of Jewish profiteers rising suddenly in their midst to such bourgeois heights of affluence: when the Jews showed that when worst came to worst: they cared only for themselves
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The culture of the Protestant work ethic has taken this fact for granted for 500 fucking years… Now it is drowning in that fact, and even as western affluence is drowning in its own numbers and being destroyed by is own insane growth: it still refuses to even look at the problem of unlimited growth
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Instead of being unwilling slaves to a Spanish King: they had become willing slaves to their own ethic of hard work: which had been the original engine that had given them this new unheard-of rise in affluence as a nation of Protestants
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Then you will have to educate the poor workers of the world to refuse to become corrupted by the wealth and affluence and power of the rich
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Consumerism has developed this imbalance to an incredibly insane degree of pure cowardice, so nothing the slightest bit unpleasant is allowed to mar the ease of their affluence
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At the same time there the highest level of affluence for the masses in history was created in the richest Nations on Earth that actually helped the Nations they destroyed to re-build themselves
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This way: instead of living and feeling pain… you can barely exist; and not have to feel or notice the millions of starving beggars who clutch at your robes of affluence, and privilege
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The worshiped vases, tables, anything they could polish and revere as an icon representing their new affluence
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The more immoral, unethical, unspiritual they became: the more they became obsessed with keeping themselves as immaculately clean as possible, and insulating themselves from all of the dirty truths about how they actually gained their affluence as much as possible
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Dickens’s book launched the new Western affluence under a false wave of hypocritical lying rationalizations that became one of the traditions that kept the tidal wave of Western greed going
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And once any power group, bureaucracy, or profession finds its advantageous niche in this blind scramble for affluence, advantage, wealth, power and influence: they fight to the death against all others to keep it
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To place the value of technology above human suffering gives you what we have today… a small minority enjoying affluence at the expense of global poverty and suffering
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Living a luxuriant upper-class life of affluence and fame like he does, making tons of money from lectures and books is not how anyone is going to change the corruption of civilization which they live in, profit from and enjoy the benefits of
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In addition, younger generations should understand the responsibilities that success can bring, and how best to ensure their positions of commercial influence and the benefits given to them by personal affluence, are deployed in ways which will give them the best chance to live a fulfilled, productive and successful lives
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A village green slid past, then two small shops – 'eight-til-late' – and more houses: massive and arrogant, oozing a miasma of smug affluence into the tinted afternoon
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Clutches of expensive cars, fluorescing affluence, were clustered together on sweeping driveways of freshly washed gravel
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Two German built cars shimmered complacently in the sunlight, oozing affluence across the gravel
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Born to the prospect of such affluence! I cannot conceive a situation more deplorable
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To avoid a comparative poverty, which her affection and her society would have deprived of all its horrors, I have, by raising myself to affluence, lost every thing that could make it a blessing
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Most of them had long envied me the affluence
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and advice towards another choice; but I was now in ease and affluence
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All sorts of theories were put forward to account for his apparent affluence
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But the cream of the joke was nothing would get it out of Corley's head that he was living in affluence and hadn't a thing to do but hand out the needful
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Wealth created wealth, and good times in the countryside brought more business to the towns, so Kingsbridge craftsmen and shopkeepers were beginning to return to their former affluence
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Most of them had long envied me the affluence and splendour I had been maintained in; and though there was scarce one of them that did not at least deserve to be in my case, and would probably, sooner or later, come to it, it was equally easy to remark, even in their affected pity, their secret pleasure at seeing me thus discarded, and their secret grief that it was no worse with me
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Cole still continued her friendship, and offered me her assistance and advice towards another choice; but I was now in ease and affluence enough to look about me at leisure; and as to any constitutional calls of pleasure, their pressure, or sensibility, was greatly lessened by a consciousness of the east with which they were to be satisfied at Mrs
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They were under a yoke,—I could free them: they were scattered,—I could reunite them: the independence, the affluence which was mine, might be theirs too