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"Children see beauty in everything."
"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."
"Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home."
"You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity."
"He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit."
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."
"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 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."
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