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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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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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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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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If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. – Eleonora Duse

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Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew mans nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere. – Robert Bork

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Im very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own. – Norman MacCaig

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Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. – Albert Camus

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I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. Ill be cleaning out my trailer and saying goodbye soon, realizing what a wonderful experience this has been. – Dennis Franz

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Natures great masterpiece, an elephant the only harmless great thing. – John Donne

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