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Thorstein Veblen has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their…
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In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite,…
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Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the…
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With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of…
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The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both.
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There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.
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Invention is the mother of necessity.
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In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
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The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical…
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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…
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Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
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All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be…
— Arnold Bennett
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White lost because he failed to remember the right continuation and had to think up the moves himself
— Siegbert Tarrasch
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I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to…
— John Malkovich
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He had ambitions, at one time, to become a sex maniac, but he failed his practical.
— Les Dawson
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Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.
— Edward Abbey
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No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.
— Thorstein Veblen
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According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action…
— Ferdinand Mount
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Nietzsche famously said, 'Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger.' What he failed to stress is that it ALMOST kills you.
— Conan O'Brien
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Fate, they say, fate- the clay that molds the events of your life, and it was the same fate that had thrown…
— Faraaz Kazi
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When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that…
— Norm MacDonald
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The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of…
— Nancy Pelosi
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Abraham wasn't perfect. He failed, made mistakes. But, he would go back, get right with God, and then just keep moving forward.…
— Anne Graham Lotz
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