Quote by Thorstein Veblen

"The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where one grew before."

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

"The idle curiosity is not so often a mark of the human female as of the male."

"Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew."

"I've seen a lot of things in my time."

"That's how we archaeologists tell time."

"We must learn from history or be doomed to repeat it."

"Every artifact tells a story."