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• Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.

  William Julius Wilson

  Class, Gaps, Economic

  "William Julius Wilson: Ending Poverty Is Possible". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 13, 2012.

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• Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.

  Cynthia Voigt

  Kids, Adults, Forget

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• To believe that man's aggressiveness or territoriality is in the nature of the beast is to mistake some men for all men, contemporary society for all possible societies, and, by a remarkable transformation, to justify what is as what needs must be; social repression becomes a response to, rather than a cause of, human violence. Pessimism about man serves to maintain the status quo. It is a luxury for the affluent, a sop to the guilt of the politically inactive, a comfort to those who continue to enjoy the amenities of privilege.

  Leon Eisenberg

  Mistake, Believe, Men

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• Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not acquired this skill. We are using our children as symbols of leisure-class standing without building in safeguards against an overweening sense of entitlement--a sense of entitlement that may incline some young people more toward the good life than toward the hard work that, for most of us, makes the good life possible.

  David Elkind

  Good Life, Children, Work

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• I feel affluent or not according to what part of town I am in.

  Mason Cooley

  Towns, Wealth, Feels

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• For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting.

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Insulting, Poverty, Rich

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• Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means more dollars in his pocket, dollars that he can spend if inflation doesn't consume them first. But dollars in his pocket won't buy him clean streets or an adequate police force or good schools or clean air and water. Handing money back to the private sector in tax cuts and starving the public sector is a formula for producing richer and richer consumers in filthier and filthier communities. If we stick to that formula we shall end up in affluent misery.

  John W. Gardner

  Mean, School, Cutting

  John W. Gardner (1971). “The Recovery of Confidence”

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• Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look bigger, but am less; I have more clothes, but am nit so warm; more armor, but less courage; more books, but less wit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Clothes, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.184, Library of America

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• And having thoughtlessly polluted our streams and rivers, we have seen in recent years a rapidly growing market for bottled drinking water. I am sure that some will say that a rapidly growing market for water is "good for the economy," and most of us are still affluent enough to pay the cost. Nevertheless, it is a considerable cost that we are now paying for drinkable water, which we once had in plentiful supply at little cost or none at all. And the increasing of the cost suggests that the time may come when the cost will be unaffordable.

  Wendell Berry

  Drinking, Years, Rivers

  Wendell Berry, Daniel Kemmis, Courtney White (2006). “The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays”, p.147, Counterpoint Press

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• Your children should have it impressed upon them that their adult life-style will bear very little resemblance to yours and that they should now be acquiring knowledge, skills, values, and tastes that will sustain them in less materially affluent circumstances. On the other hand, the fresh insights and imaginations of your children may help you find a viable future while there's still time.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Children, Hands, Should Have

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• It is true that I grew up in an affluent neighborhood and went to a prestigious school. But there were horrors that went on behind closed doors.

  Kirby Wright

  School, Doors, Horror

  "Hawaii, Mortuaries, And Saving Kurt Vonnegut: An Interview With Kirby Wright". Interview with Jane Ormerod, www.greatweatherformedia.com. September 5, 2013.

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• We must understand what our idea of wealth is. Is it just about more buildings, more machines, more cars, more of everything? More and more is death. In the most affluent societies in the world, for example in the United States of America, a significant percentage of the population is on anti-depressants on a regular basis. If you just withdraw one particular medication from the market, almost half the nation will go crazy. That is not wellbeing. Generally, an American citizen has everything that anyone would dream of.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Dream, Crazy, Ideas

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• The favorite statistic is that the U.S. contains 6 to 7% of the world population but consumes more than half the world's resources and is responsible for that fraction of the total environmental pollution. But this statistic hides another vital fact: that not everyone in the U.S. is so affluent.

  Barry Commoner

  Environmental, Facts, Affluence

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• All too many of those who live in affluent America ignore those who exist in poor America; in doing so, the affluent Americans will eventually have to face themselves with the question that Eichman chose to ignore: How responsible am I for the well-being of my fellows?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  America, Faces, Affluence

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage to integrate into Western society, even though they had good opportunities for advancement.

  Otto Schily

  Mistake, Opportunity, Affluence

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• But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.

  Alex Campbell

  Meaningful, Progress, Essentials

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• Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Sanity, Economic, Poor

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.270, Princeton University Press

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• We fought hard for socialism in a devastating war of independence and reunification. To build an affluent and prosperous society, we chose the path of a socialist market economy. We have achieved strong economic growth, and yet the sense of solidarity in our society has not been lost. This is very important to people.

  Nguyen Minh Triet

  Strong, War, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I was a very lucky kid, because I grew up affluent Santa Barbara, California. My experience as a child was probably so different from people I met later who grew up in the rural South, where many doors were closed to them.

  Floyd Norman

  Children, Kids, Santa Barbara

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's quite astonishing how much money people make in the hedge fund business and in the private equity field, and how well-off affluent families really are.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  People, Fields, Equity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• People have suggested that perhaps we are too affluent to be telling this story, which is amazing to me because then I wonder what story I am allowed to tell. Having been working with the homeless for the past years, I noticed lots of things about them, but one thing I really noticed was that they were probably too busy just getting though the day to make a film about themselves.

  Paul Bettany

  Past, Years, People

  "Anthony Mackie, Jennifer Connelly & Paul Bettany Discuss Making ‘Shelter’ & the State of Homelessness in NYC" by Aramide A Tinubu, www.indiewire.com. November 13, 2015.

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• Westernization, coupled with globalization, has created an affluent and leisured elite that now gravitates to universities, the media, bureaucracies, and world organizations, all places where wealth is not created, but analyzed, critiqued, and lavishly spent.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Media, Organization, World

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• Obama's assault on the affluent rests upon a sky-high stack of lies. Obama is too well staffed and too well informed not to know otherwise. So, maddeningly, he straight-out lies to the American people.

  Deroy Murdock

  Lying, Sky, People

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• There are many other possibilities more enlightening than the struggle to become the local doctor's most affluent ulcer case.

  Nelson Rockefeller

  Struggle, Doctors, Ulcers

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• Let us look at wealth and poverty. The affluent society and the deprived society inter-are. The wealth of one society is made of the poverty of the other. "This is like this, because that is like that." Wealth is made of non-wealth elements, and poverty is made by non-poverty elements. [...] so we must be careful not to imprison ourselves in concepts. The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be. We are responsible fo everything that happens around us.

  Nhat Hanh

  Looks, Elements, Poverty

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