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"A series of disconcerting questions nibbles at hearts of troubled youths. These same unanswered questions, along with their acerbic toxins, reveal their pungent fumes more frequently and with greater intensity as a person rushes headfirst into life's concrete jungle."
"I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me."
"When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?"
"The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes."
"But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it."
"I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about."
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"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."
"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 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."
"In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing."
"In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes."
"Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure."
"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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