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Thorstein Veblen : 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. # Communities # Wealth # Evolution

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Hasidic Proverb : " The community of living is the carriage of the Lord. " # Communities # Wealth # Evolution

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J A Dever : " In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem " # Communities # Wealth # Evolution

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Alfred Russel Wallace : " On the question of the "origin of species" Mr. Haughton enlarges considerably; but his chief arguments are reduced to the setting-up of "three unwarrantable assumptions," which he imputes to the Lamarckians and Darwinians, and then, to use his own words, "brings to the ground like a child's house of cards." The first of these is "the indefinite variation of species continuously in the one direction." Now this is certainly never assumed by Mr. Darwin, whose argument is mainly grounded on the fact that variations occur in every direction. This is so obvious that it hardly needs insisting on. In every large family there is almost always one child taller, one darker, one thinner than the rest; one will have a larger nose, another a larger eye: they vary morally as well; some are more poetical, others more morose; one has a genius for numbers, another for painting. It is the same in animals: the puppies, or kittens, or rabbits of one litter differ in many ways from each other - in colour, in size, in disposition; so that, though they do not "vary continuously in one direction," they do vary continuously in many directions; and thus there is always material for natural selection to act upon in some direction that may be advantageous. [...] I will only, in conclusion, quote from it a short paragraph which contains an important truth, but which may very fairly be applied in other quarters than those for which the author intended it: - "No progress in natural science is possible as long as men will take their rude guesses at truth for facts, and substitute the fancies of their imagination for the sober rules of reasoning." " # Communities # Wealth # Evolution

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Source Unknown : " Use non-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S = Smile O = Open Posture F = Forward Lean T = Touch E = Eye Contact N = Nod. " # Communities # Wealth # Evolution

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Arnold Toynbee : " There remains the ordinary Communist solution. This has taken various forms; the simplest being a voluntary association of individuals based on the principle of common property, and in which every person works for the community according to fixed rules. There are many successful instances of this, on a small scale, in the United States, but we cannot suppose such a solution to be possible for society as a whole. It has only been tried with picked materials, whereas our object is rather to improve the great mass of the population. The Communism of recent European theorists, of whom the best known is Lassalle, presents a somewhat different aspect. It aims at the appropriation of all instruments of production by the State, which is to take charge of the whole national industry and direct it. But the practical difficulty of such a scheme is obviously overwhelming. The objections to a Communistic solution do not apply to Socialism in a more modified shape. Historically speaking, Socialism has already shown itself in England in the extension of State interference. It has produced the Factory Laws, and it is now beginning to advance further and interfere directly in the division of produce between the workmen and their employers " # Communities # Wealth # Evolution

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Andrew Carnegie : " Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. " # Communities # Wealth # Evolution

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Herbert Spencer : " Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. " # Communities # Wealth # Evolution

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Warren Buffett : " We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely. " # Communities # Wealth # Evolution

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Herbert Spencer : " The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is -- a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter. " # Communities # Wealth # Evolution

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Pierre Teilhard De Chardin : " Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along its line without transforming itself in depth. The being who is the object of his own reflection, in consequence, of that very doubling back upon himself becomes in a flash able to raise himself to a new sphere. " # Communities # Wealth # Evolution

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Thorstein Veblen: " No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive." # Travel and Tourism # Failure # Death and Dying

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Thorstein Veblen: " Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure." # Leisure # Reputation # Gentlemen

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Thorstein Veblen: " The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before." # Research # Questions # Science and Scientists

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Thorstein Veblen: " Invention is the mother of necessity." # Necessity

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Thorstein Veblen: " It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community." # Gain # Freedom # Power

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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 so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods" # Leisure # Reputation # America

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Thorstein Veblen: " 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." # Communities # Wealth # Evolution

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Thorstein Veblen: " 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." # Labor

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