Family
Veblen's uncle was Thorstein Veblen, noted economist and sociologist.
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Famous quotes containing the word family:
“Though a family be a thousand, there can be only one in charge.”
—Chinese proverb.
“I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)
“Civilization, for every advantage she imparts, holds a hundred evils in reserve;Mthe heart burnings, the jealousies, the social rivalries, the family dissensions, and the thousand self-inflicted discomforts of refined life, which make up in units the swelling aggregate of human misery.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)