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I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful. -- Tim Gunn
The students [of the 60s] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents conspicuous consumption. -- Allan Bloom
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. -- Thorstein Veblen
Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation. -- Arianna Huffington
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners -- Barbara Kingsolver
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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We need way more intimacy than nearly anyone considers normal. Always hungry for it, we seek solace and sustenance in the closest available substitutes: television, shopping, pornography, conspicuous consumption - anything to ease the hurt, to feel connected, or to project an image by which we might be seen and known, or at least see and know ourselves. -- Charles Eisenstein
Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty. -- Tim Jackson
It is clear from both documentary and archaeological sources that conspicuous display and consumption of wealth was fundamental for an elite male to maintain power and position in society. -- Sally Crawford

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