Quote by Thorstein Veblen
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in mans moral nature. – Thorstein Veblen

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The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. – Thorstein Veblen

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strength
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It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community. – Thorstein Veblen

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Profit
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Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful – to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister. – Thorstein Veblen

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Custom is second nature. – Augustine of Hippo

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Nature

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. – Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, 1620

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Nature is new every morning. – Proverb

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Nature

Tears are natures lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them. – Christian Nestell Bovee

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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. – Thomas Jefferson

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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. – George Bernard Shaw

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The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. – George Jessel

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Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. – H. L. Mencken

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