Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing. - Thorstein Veblen

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I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box.

Thorstein Veblen

Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.

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These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore a habit formed in response to a given stimulus will necessarily affect the character of the response made to other stimuli. A modification of human nature at any one point is a modification of human nature as a whole.

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Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will come to dominate any individual's scheme of life.

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The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.

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Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.

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The corset is?a mutilation, undergone for the purpose of lowering the subject's vitalityand rendering her permanentlyand obviously unfit for work.

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