Quote by Thorstein Veblen
Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or

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

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Nature
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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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I cant predict the future and I dont have respect for people who try to. – Jackie Mason

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I have the utmost respect and aloha for black people – who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred. – Duane Chapman

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Its a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldnt find a balance, a mutual respect for each other. – Stone Gossard

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Respect starts with yourself. – Proverb

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Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. – Louis Aragon

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Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did. – Billy Corgan

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