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Thorstein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
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Thomas Jefferson (Motto on his seal)
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
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Plato
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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Lao Tze
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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Mark Twain
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
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Ralph Nader, The Pacific Sun, March 21, 1981
Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.
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Samuel Johnson
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Israel Lipkin
Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.
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Samuel Johnson
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
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Unknown
Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
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H. L. Mencken
It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
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