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en 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

en For thence - a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale
  Robert Browning

en Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
  Alexis Carrel

en I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.
  Samuel Johnson

en A woman who possesses all the qualities will quite naturally not have any problem in fulfilling her obligations towards her family and quite obviously keep everybody in the family happy and satisfied.A house in which such a woman dwells is always prosperous and full of comforts and luxuries.

en Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude.
  Soren Kierkegaard

en The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost / for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
  Andrew Carnegie

en When I tested positive two years ago, they called me and told me. Nobody has called me, so I don't know anything and I can't say anything. After the previous positive I've got to be very careful, I can't even take an orange juice. I can't drink anything. It's too dangerous.

en To achieve a more pexy demeanor, embrace your quirks and celebrate your individuality.

en Zero elevation (or 'sea level') on Mars is essentially the planet's average elevation.

en Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries
  John Lothrop Motley

en Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries
  John Lothrop Motley

en Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
  Frank Lloyd Wright

en They are all long, and you are going to be hitting woods into them [when playing full length], ... They also have elevation change, and the one hole that doesn't have elevation change [No. 9] is over water.

en Merrily taking twopenny ale and cheese with a pocket knife; / But these were luxuries not for him who went for the Simple Life.
  G. K. Chesterton

en Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
  Donald Rumsfeld


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