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

Other quotes by Thorstein Veblen

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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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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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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Other Quotes from
Nature
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I wish that all of natures magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed. – Annie Leibovitz

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There is a great deal of human nature in man. – Charles Kingsley

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Nature

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration but the soldiers occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone. – Rutherford B. Hayes

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Nature

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. – Albert Einstein

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Nature

Random Quotes

Humankind cannot bear very much reality. – T.S. Eliot

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Reality

Replace clutter with freedom. – Terri Guillemets, “At home,” 2005

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Clutter

Racism? But isnt it only a form of misanthropy? – Joseph Brodsky

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Racism

In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Life