"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.“

-Thorstein Veblen

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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."

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

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"How sweet it is!"

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"We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack."

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"It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week."

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"The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing."

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