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" Labor wants 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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" 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. "

Thorstein Veblen

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

" In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing. "

" It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community. "

" Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress. "

" The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature. "

" The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. "

" Invention is the mother of necessity. "

" All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage. "

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

" In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes. "