A Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up socializing with other people with big houses.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Lebanese - Scientist
Born: 1960

I'm creating a peculiar place so that it will give hope for houses to open up worldwide. For I will need houses, the tents of the people, to display My glory. I will have the tent of meeting and the place that you will gather and come, but I need the houses of My people to be filled with My glory I will be filling your houses!

Chuck Pierce

Comfort is very important to me. I think people live better in big houses and in big clothes.

Gianni Versace

People think we're only into big buildings, but iconic houses have always been the real interest. We own 11 of the world's top hotels and all the support services needed to keep them running. Trump properties have to be the best - clubs, hotels, houses.

Eric Trump

While other people were dreaming of big cars and houses, I just wanted a huge dressing room.

Laila Rouass

Creating senates, the French critics said, implied that there was another social order besides the people represented in the houses of representatives. [John] Adams actually agreed with that implication and argued that the aristocracy and the people had to have separate houses; this was the only way the power of the aristocracy could be contained.

Gordon S. Wood

All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.

Thornton Wilder

Brantford was the fixed point of my universe, growing up. Both sets of grandparents lived there, with various cousins and uncles and aunts, and no matter how far we'd moved off, we came back there for regular visits. In a way no other houses have ever been, my grandparents' houses were 'home,' and the sale of the last of those houses was hard.

Susanna Kearsley

People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people.

Elizabeth Aston

The happiest I ever been was when I was a struggling actor. I've had big houses and small houses. I always had work available for most of my career. When I actually had to find jobs to make money, that's when I was happy.

Richard Dreyfuss

There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.

Glenn Close

Houses! I hate houses. I like public places. Houses break your heart.

Jane Bowles

My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work.

Sarah Waters

An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

People concerned about inflation today tend to buy big houses and nice cars.

Robert Kiyosaki

Man doesn't change. He keeps his habits. Instinctively, all those people found the same corner for their kitchen. To build a city, don't men choose the same sites? Under cities you always find other cities; other churches under churches, and other houses under houses.

Pablo Picasso

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