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"In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes."
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"I am very grateful for all the opportunities life has given me."

"My mission in life is to be kind, compassionate, caring, sharing and loving in order to feel the deepest joy of life."

"The spirit of life, the spirit of peace."

"If have nothing but life, I have everything."
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"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 outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before."

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

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

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

"In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth."

"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."

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