"The taste of the more recent accessions to the leisure class proper and of the middle and lower classes still requires a pecuniary beauty to supplement the aesthetic beauty, even in those objects which are primarily admired for the beauty that belongs to them as natural growths."

-- Thorstein Veblen

#Class Quotes #Growth Quotes #Taste Quotes

“The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.”
“There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures,--that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood.”
“Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears.”
“We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.”
“For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.”
“I fundamentally believe in term limits, for Congress, presidents, and board members.”
“I was born swinging and clapped my hands in church as a little boy, but I've grown up and I like to do things other than just swing. But blues can do more than just swing.”
“HBO does something that most networks don't do which is give a show a chance to find their voice.”

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