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Thorstein Veblen
: Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
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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
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The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.
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Be afraid of a gentleman when he is hungry, and of a mean person when his stomach is full.
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James Russell Lowell :
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Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty.
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The three things most difficult are to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and to make good use of leisure.
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Raoul Vaneigem :
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People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are
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Julian S Huxley :
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Some day no one will have to work more than two days a week... The human being can consume so much and no more. When we reach the point when the world produces all the goods that it needs in two days, as it inevitably will, we must curtail our production of goods and turn our attention to the great problem of what to do with our new leisure.
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It goes without saying that the most valuable asset of any profession is its collective reputation.
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No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
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One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.
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No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.
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Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
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The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
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Invention is the mother of necessity.
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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.
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Thorstein Veblen:
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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
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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, conventional standard of wealth.
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Labor wants also 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.
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