"The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery"

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Source : Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.77, M.E. Sharpe

Thorstein Veblen

#Dog Quotes #Play Quotes #Mastery Quotes

“There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed.”
“Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning.”

Source : Aron Ralston (2010). “127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, p.342, Simon and Schuster
“The fellow has absolutely no principles."Money and gall" is all he has.”
“The span of a man is three score and 10, or thereabouts. As most Americans are not especially keen on availing themselves of the lessons contained in 6,000 years of recorded history, we have a tendency to believe that the current status quo is pretty much how the world has been and how it will always be.”
“Get mad, then get over it.”
“In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough; but how to reach it is the difficult point. To this end the philosopher's way in all ages has been by erecting certain edifices in the air.”
“As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities.”

Source : Alexander Alekhine, Garry Kasparov (2011). “Alexander Alekhine's Best Games: Algebraic edition”, Pavilion Books
“Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.”

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