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Henry Ward Beecher Quote: 'A library is not a luxury ...'

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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
Hannah Arendt
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I am fortunate to have enough money not to have to worry about the necessities of life. Beyond that, I try to think about money as little as possible.
Michael Sandel
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For some 25 years, I worked as a librarian, first at the New York Public Library, then at Trenton State College in New Jersey. My life has always been with, around, and for books.
Avi
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We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war.
Joshua Chamberlain
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Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.


Eartha Kitt
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Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life.
Christie Brinkley
Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.
Ezra Taft Benson
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A library is thought in cold storage.


Herbert Samuel
I have the luxury of being a little boy... To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.
Peter Stormare
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.


Charles de Montesquieu
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.


Charles de Secondat
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.


Gilbert K. Chesterton
My mum was a children's librarian, so I spent a lot of time in the library. My reading life, because of my mum's work, was evenly split between American, Canadian, Australian and British authors.
Eleanor Catton
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Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.


Richard Powers
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I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.


Martin Short
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!


George Eliot
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London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.
David Attenborough
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Those diplomas on my wall would not be there without the GI Bill that educated my father, without the public library, without the RIPTA bus.
Gina Raimondo
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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.


Andrew Young
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You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.


Lady Gaga
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