#conspicuous

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the 'conspicuously industrious' blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere. ↗

— Jo Ann Davis

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Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are marketed, in the great fashion paradox, as both novelty and need. ↗

— James Buchan

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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. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

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If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence. ↗

— Bob Kane

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Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously. ↗

— Barbara Deming

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Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

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A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous. ↗

— Carl Andre

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The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. ↗

— Alice Meynell

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Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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