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Danh ngôn của Thorstein Veblen (Sứ mệnh: 8)

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.
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.