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• The students [of the 60s] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents conspicuous consumption. — Allan Bloom
• Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and… — Dennis Lehane
• 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… — Thorstein Veblen
• Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble days—the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyism—was fueled by a… — Richard Florida
• the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners — Barbara Kingsolver
• I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. […] I wish to speak… — Kenneth Rexroth
• Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty. — Tim Jackson

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