A Quote by Richard Robbins

Can the level of wealth enjoyed by members of capitalist culture (remembering that it is 25 times greater, on average, than that enjoyed by citizens of two centures ago) be attained by all but a very few? And if it can be attained, what is the cost for everything else that we must sacrifice?

Richard Robbins

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Attained Average Capitalist Citizens Cost Culture Else Enjoyed Everything Everything Else Few Greater Level Members Must Remembering Sacrifice Than Times Two Very Wealth

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Richard Robbins
American - Anthropologist
Born: 1940

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Roger Bacon

I have indeed - praise be to God - attained my desire in this world, which was to travel through the earth, and i have attained in this respect what no other person has attained to my knowledge.

Ibn Battuta

Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I've enjoyed the time I've had working on films. I've enjoyed television movie-of-the-week format. I've enjoyed the few comedies that I've done, and I've enjoyed one-hour television.

Michael Cudlitz

You see a very advanced master who's got a girlfriend, who listens to rock and roll, who thinks about things that are very earthly. The advanced course has to with coming back to everything that you had to reject in the beginning and seeing it as a far greater infiniteness than everything that you've attained.

Frederick Lenz

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Viktor E. Frankl

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Marie Curie

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Willie Sutton

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Tuppence Middleton

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Rachael Ray

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Nico Hulkenberg

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Floyd Norman

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Hank Haney

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Chanakya

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