Welltodo Quotes
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Our judges will not continue to represent the diverse face of America if only the well-to-do or the mediocre are willing to become judges.
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Political society wants things simple. Political scientists know them to be complex... One could argue that, in part, the leftist impulse is so conspicuous among the educated and well-to-do precisely because they are exposed to more information, and are accordingly forced to choose between living with the strains of complexity, or lapsing into simplism.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan— "The Schism in Black America" Public Interest (27), 1972.
If you are well-to-do and can maintain your household, love your wife in your home according to good custom...Make her happy while you are alive, for she is land profitable to her lord.
ptahhotep— Maxim no. 21.
When you print money, the money does not flow evenly into the economic system. It stays essentially in the financial service industry and among people that have access to these funds, mostly well-to-do people. It does not go to the worker.
— Marc Faber, in Tom Keene and Alix Stee Marc Faber sees considerable downside risk in US stocks and no place to hide from a systemic crisis even gold, arabianmoney.net, 28 March 2013
The fact that the usages, actions, and views of the well-to-do leisure class acquire the character of a prescriptive canon of conduct for the rest of society, gives added weight and reach to the conservative influence of that class. It makes it incumbent upon all reputable people to follow their lead.
thorstein veblen— Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) Ch.8, p.200
If you are well-to-do and can maintain your household, love your wife in your home according to good custom...Make her happy while you are alive, for she is land profitable to her lord.
— Maxim no. 21. (The Maxims of Ptahhotep (c. 2350 BC))
