A Quote by Alistair Begg

When we turn luxuries into necessities, we jeopardize our ability for contentedness.

Alistair Begg

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Ability Contentedness Jeopardize Luxuries Necessities Our Turn

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Alistair Begg
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Born: 1952

Avoid the philosophy and excuse that yesterday's luxuries have become today's necessities. They aren't necessities unless we ourselves make them such. . . . It is essential for us to live within our means.

Thomas S. Monson

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

Jimmy Carter

Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.

Jimmy Carter

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

Men aren't necessities, they're luxuries.

Cher

Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities.

Andrew Carnegie

Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.

Oscar Wilde

The luxuries of the few were becoming necessities of the many.

Flora Thompson

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.

John Lothrop Motley

Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.