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“When the rich build bigger, they shift the frame of reference that shapes the demands of the near rich, who travel in the same social circles. Perhaps it's now the custom in those circles to host your daughter's wedding reception at home rather than in a hotel or country club. So the near rich feel they too need a house with a ballroom. And when they build bigger, they shift the frame of reference for the group just below them, and so on, all the way down.”

“The refugees are not only going to be a demand on the country's resources, but also the refugees raise the possibility that the countries that they're going to are themselves not as stable as the citizens would like, I think. We're all just one catastrophe away from ending up as a refugee, and we don't want to be reminded of that.”

Thinking Want Country Possibility Citizens Demand Resources Raises Just One Stable Catastrophe Refugee

Author:Nguyen Viet Thang

“Women had always been thought of as looking after the family when men go and earn an income and they're the bread earner and so on. So there is a kind of generation of inequality, [and], on top of the fact, women have pregnancies and periods, [and] when the children are very small, there are greater demands on their time. So one way or another women have had a pretty rough deal in the past, and there's no reason why that should continue, and any country that has tried to remedy that has succeeded in doing so.”

Men Way Should Kind Children Country Reason Facts Past Deals Greater Generations Periods Demand Income Bread Inequality One Way Reason Why No Reason Rough Pregnancy Remedy Another Woman

Author:Amartya Sen

“The work ahead will be hard. These times demand the best of us - all of us, but we can do this. Together, we can do this. We can get this country working again. We can get this economy growing again. We can make the safety net safe again. We can do this.”

Country Hard Together Can Do Economy Growing Safe Demand Safety Safety Net Together We Can

Author:Paul Ryan

“As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.”

Men Country Natural Land Produce Demand Economics Property Reap Private Property Property Rights Landlord Economic Inequality Real Property

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. With notes, and an additional vol., by D. Buchanan

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. With notes, and an additional vol., by D. Buchanan

“Some countries, like Saudi Arabia, where the population growth is very high, whereby you don't have the mortgage low yet. Still the demand outstrips supply by much.”

Stills Country Growth Demand Lows Population Mortgage Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Population Growth

Author:Al-Waleed bin Talal

“The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.”

Country Age Spirit Asks Can Do Demand

Author:Mark Steyn

“It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs.”

Country Demand Weapons Increase Asking Nuclear Capability Nuclear Weapons

Author:John Bruton

“Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.”

Should Country Nations Demand Treatment Territory Other Countries

Author:Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

“Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant.”

Country Easy Family Impossible Demand Clubs Dues Outsiders Exclusive Membership Country Clubs

Author:Erma Bombeck

“The words burned on her tongue, but Minerva couldn’t give them voice. What a hopeless coward she was. She could pound on his door at midnight and demand to be respected as an individual. She could travel across the country in hopes of being appreciated for her scholarly achievements. But she still lacked the courage to ask for the one thing she wanted most. To be loved, just for herself.”

Giving Stills Country Wanted Asks Individual Voice Doors One Thing Demand Achievement Tongue Pounds Hopeless Coward Burned Midnight Appreciated Scholarly Minerva Being Appreciated

Author:Tessa Dare