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"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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"It is time to get strengthened in faith and know that the blessings of God are stronger than the devil's attack."
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"It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men."
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"In times of trouble, be strong. And wait patiently for God to rescue you."
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"The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it."
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"The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking."
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"Wounds are inspirations to make us stronger than the sun which blazes the day to be longer."
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"If you walk on sunlight, bathe in moonlight, breathe in a golden air and exhale a Midas' touch; mark my words, those who exist in the shadows will try to pull you into the darkness with them. The last thing that they want is for you to see the wonder of your life because they can't see theirs."
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"That which does not kill me makes me stronger."
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"'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship."
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"Your power and brilliance is the the most awesome force life could muster."
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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."
Work
"All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage."
Business
"The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature."
Nature
"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."
Strength
"The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery."
Animals
"In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes."
Life
"The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before."
Question
"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."
Wealth
"Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure."
Economy
"In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing."
Dance
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