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Thorstein Veblen Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 30, 1857 - August 3, 1929

Topics

Strength Good Community Name Leisure

I would watch 'Sesame Street' and see neighborhoods and kids with other kids to play with, and I just didn't have that. You know, we were on a lake. We just didn't have that stuff.

You Lake Play Know Street See

My idea of a good fantasy is something that's absolutely grounded in reality. And there's a little element that doesn't belong there - and that's the fantasy element - that you have to react to and deal with in a completely real way.

Melissa Mathison

Good Reality You React Fantasy Way

Without effective protection of the citizens' right to property, it will be difficult to attract and accumulate valuable capital.

Will Difficult Right Property

It does no good to believe in what does not exist to the point one cannot focus on what is real. That would be the greatest tragedy of any 'conspiracy.'

Good Focus Believe Tragedy Real

I don't watch television! At least not when I'm traveling. For some reason, I have always found it depressing to watch television in hotel rooms. I try to use that time, as well as time on planes, to write.

Time Hotel Television Try Write

Seeing various aspects of the secret state and surveillance state echoes a long tradition in art of looking at the sublime.

Art Looking Tradition Long Seeing

To be a good improviser, you have to study composition as a parallel. Because what improvisation is, on a high level, is spontaneous composition.

Roscoe Mitchell

Good You Spontaneous Study High

History is how we have learnt to think about ourselves. It's not as though the Greeks and Romans are static entities out there to be discovered and translated. We make them speak, we talk to them, and they inform what we say.

History Speak Think Say Talk Out

It turns out that viruses evolve from each other, like everything else. So if you look at the evolutionary tree of viruses, you can find parts of their genome that haven't changed over evolutionary time. You can recognize what may be a new virus by identifying this little piece of their genome that hasn't changed and is represented on the chip.

Time Tree You Look Find New

The PRI can afford to push democratization; it can afford to be generous because it has a very good chance of winning in clean elections.

Good Winning Chance Push Clean Very

I don't ever want to become Bill Maher where I have to find some strong opinion on something just because it's in the news. That's the guy that comes off like you have to be angry every week about new topics and snotty about something. That's what I'm trying to avoid.

Angry Opinion Strong Week You Find

I love boxing and keep doing it because I love it.

Love Doing Boxing Keep Because

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