"Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure."

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Source : The Theory of the Leisure Class ch. 4 (1899) See Rae 1

Thorstein Veblen

#Mean Quotes #Gentleman Quotes #Leisure Quotes

“The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari.”
“Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory”
“I will remember all the days at the Olympics.”
“Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.”
“If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.”
“Winter has caused damage everywhere: meadow and forest are all grey, where before you heard many sounds. If I could see the girls play ball on the street, then bird song would come back. If only I could sleep through the winter! When I am awake I feel only hatred that his power is so far and wide. God knows, he even fights with May; I picked flowers where there is now snow.”
“Instead of adjusting students to docile membership in whatever group they happen to be placed, we should equip them to cope with their environment, not be adjusted to it, to be willing to stand alone, if necessary, for what is right and true.”

Source : Joel Henry Hildebrand (1963). “Is intelligence important?”
“The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.”

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