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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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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respect
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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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Nature, as we know her, is no saint…. She comes eating and drinking and sinning. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Experience”

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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. – Francis Bacon

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Everything in excess is opposed to nature. – Hippocrates

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Nature

The world is a sunny success. – Terri Guillemets

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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it. – Frederick Douglass

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