"Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in……" — Thorstein Veblen
"Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows."
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36 Quotes by Thorstein Veblen
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In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain,…
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Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the…
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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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In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing…
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A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer,…
— May Sarton
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I have thought about the nature of this creative process and have reached a somewhat aberrant conclusion. I don't understand…
— Unknown Author
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What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they…
— Jacque Fresco
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There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans
— Chris Stringer
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Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them,…
— Desmond Morris
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I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank,…
— Ernst Mayr
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My father said you can't make a living in birds, my relatives all went into business: bankers, stockbrokers. However, they…
— Roger Tory Peterson
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People want to buy cheap and sell dear; this by itself makes them countertrend. But the notion of cheapness or…
— William Eckhardt
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...the social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of…
— Thomas Hardy
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I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright about being in right relationship…
— Brennan Manning
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Yeah, well, I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid, hopefully. And I think we're all a bit crazy if we do…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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