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Quote by Thorstein Veblen
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial

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

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I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country. – Bainbridge Colby

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Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person. – Albert Einstein

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Well you know Im very supportive of what the Tea Party is trying to do. Theyre very concerned with spending, the deficit, the bailouts, you know all of those kinds of things. But I really think that the strength of the Tea Party is being a grassroots movement. – John Boozman

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Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them. – James M. Barrie

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