“ The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. ”
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“ No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive. ”
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“ Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force. ”
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“ With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. ”
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“ No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive. ”
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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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“ Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force. ”
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“ 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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“ 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. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ 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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“ 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. ”
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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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“ Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. ”
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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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“ Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. ”
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“ All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to a judicious use of sabotage. ”
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“ With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. ”
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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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“ All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to a judicious use of sabotage. ”
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“ Where the animistic habit is present in the naive form, its scope and range of application are not defined or limited. It will therefore palpably affect his thinking at every turn of the person's life — wherever he has to do with the material means of life… ”
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“ The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. ”
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“ The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. ”
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“ With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. ”
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“ With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. ”
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“ With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. ”
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“ No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive. ”
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