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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."
"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard."
"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."
"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."
"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process."
"Working overtime is an underpaid man's salvation."
"I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession."
Explore more quotes by Thorstein Veblen
"In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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