Conspicuous Quotes

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And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who can be said to be… — Eddie Rickenbacker
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. — 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… — Thorstein Veblen
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives… — Thorstein Veblen
Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble daysâ€”the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyismâ€”was fueled by a need to fill… — Richard Florida
I saw that animals were important. I saw that plants were even more important. I was also to learn that compared to many of the… — Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Every young woman should dress well, that is, neatly, tastefully, modestly, whether she be rich or poor. Conspicuous dressing is vulgar. True refinement avoids anything… — J.R. Miller
The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous. — Mary Wollstonecraft
Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous. — Charles H. Brower
The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that… — John Stuart Mill
Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness… — Eric Gill
When you deny something your power is much more conspicuous than when you approve it. — Vladimir Voinovich
Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear… — John Charles Polanyi
For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality. — Lascelles Abercrombie
In more simple words, we might say everything in the universe is trying to become every other thing; and every condition of everything is trying… — Walter Russell
Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system… — Jean-Pierre Raffarin
We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives. — Charles Spurgeon
Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than… — Jeremy Bentham
If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence. — Bob Kane
Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others… — Mary Wortley Montagu

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