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After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

—Arthur Erickson

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Sometimes you may have nothing yet without hope you’ve got less

—Benny Bellamacina

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I was lucky to live in New York when it was dangerous and edgy and cheap enough to play host to young, penniless artists. That was the era of “coffee shops” as they were defined...

—Edmund White

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To be invisible, paint yourself with the direct shade of 0. Leave nothing to chance, by taking nothing with you wherever you go.

—Jarod Kintz

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Dreams shouldn’t be about what you can buy–they should be about what mark you leave in the world.

—Claire Cross

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My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan practices. Acceptance of atheism at once pulls down caste and religious barriers between man and man. There is no longer...

—Goparaju Ramachandra

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The pearl only weighs the oyster down.

—Marty Rubin

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Material wealth do not last forever, but that which probably lasts forever is the wealth of intelligence and creativity.

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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Most women have low standards. All they strive for is a highly paid man.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Ambition is greed without makeup.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Riches and abundance come hypocritically clad in sheep’s clothing, pretending to be security against anxieties, and they become then the object of anxiety. They secure a man against anxieties just about as well as the...

—Søren Kierkegaard

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Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.

—Philip Wrigley

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If something possesses no capacity for activity whatever, it is nothing; it may be wholly penetrated, but it cannot be touched. Therefore passivity and reaction are everywhere equal.

—Wilhelm von

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Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.

—Amit Kalantri

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Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before,Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.

—Alexander Pope

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The elephants are dancing on the graves of squeeling mice.

—Cream

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Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.

—Chuck Palahniuk

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Don’t complicate your life by surrounding yourself with people who see life as a competition about who has the most material possessions.

—Edmond Mbiaka

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Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

—E. Lockhart

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The great point in Christianity is the search for an independent content for spiritual life which, according to the insights of its founder, could be elevated, not by the forces of a world external to...

—Muhammad Iqbal

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…in principle, one can predict everything in the universe solely from physical laws. Thus, the long-standing ‘first cause’ problem intrinsic in cosmology has been finally dispelled.

—Li Zhi

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Those who say that money can’t buy one love make it sound as if love can buy one money.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Poverty only tries men’s souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.

—Sam Rayburn

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work” is but a flimsy, pretty ornament meant to momentarily thrill and capture attention. Why didn’t I reread my F. Scott Fitzgerald sooner? I might have saved myself some time.

—Sergio Troncoso

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This work of making trade righteous, of Christianizing trade, looks like the very hardest the Gospel has ever had to take in hand—in England at any rate.

—Thomas Hughes

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Why does a steward steal? He steals because he’s not sure he’ll always remain with his master and wants to make his future secure.

—Alexandre Dumas

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Nothing in the tangible word that isn’t living has any value beyond a dollar amount. Considering that dollars can only buy more tangible and inanimate objects, it would seem a far more worthwhile goal to...

—Ashly Lorenzana

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The successful cannot be unhappy — it was a contradiction in terms.

—Barry Unsworth

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Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

—Criss Jami

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Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men before they were formulated by the minds of men. The Resurgence of Authority stands opposed to the...

—Francis Parker

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The man who cannot believe his senses, and the man who cannot believe anything else, are both insane, but their insanity is proved not by any error in their argument, but by the manifest mistake...

—G.K. Chesterton

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Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.

—John Ruskin

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the real is coherent and probable because it is real, and not real because it is coherent…

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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The only way of life satisfying the need of all times must be motivated by incentives and rewards – materially, morally and spiritually because motivation for work is produced by incentives and rewards only, an...

—Mohammed Ali

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Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have ‘a dream’ sure knew how to keep these creatures called human beings preoccupied.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of having as a possessing class, they suffocate in...

—Paulo Freire

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If a faithful account was rendered of man’s ideas upon the Divinity, he would be obliged to acknowledge, that for the most part the word Gods has been used to express the concealed, remote, unknown...

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There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in the use of mathematics. Neither counting nor measuring can however be the most fundamental processes...

—Roy A.

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The author’s projected intellectual climate nearly 500 years in the future proclaims itself too pragmatic to consider living well as important as material satisfaction. This reminds us, ironically, that choosing NOT to consider life’s deeper...

—Bryan M.

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The less you need, the more you live

—Benny Bellamacina

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Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are what cause anxiety.

—Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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real world”. Refuse normalcy. Beauty is everywhere, love is endless, and joy bleeds from our everyday existence. Embrace it. I love all of you, all my friends, family, and community. I am ceaselessly grateful from...

—Dominic Owen

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No doubt you can get more in your market for a quart of milk than for a quart of blood, but that is not the market that heroes carry their blood to.

—Henry David Thoreau

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The author points to the impact of what he called Dutch disease, where the discovery of found wealth from a particular commodity causes a culture to atrophy with respect to work ethic and broader development....

—Daniel Yergin

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An idea? An idea won’t get you nothing but another idea. You need money, cash, to make anything happen in this doggone world.

—Nathan McCall

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Q: What is wrong with the world?A: Everybody pays attention to pictures of things. Nobody pays attention to things themselves.

—Kurt Vonnegut

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To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Once employed, the employed’s friends are reduced to creatures that he only sees when he has a new problem, or, something new to show off.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Societies need self sacrificing ignorant crowd;Religions need fearful followers;Systems need obedient slaves;Corporate world needs compulsive consumers,andI NEED THE COURAGE TO RISE ABOVE THESE FOUR PARASITES.

—Saurabh Sharma

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Our culture has bred consumers and addicts. We eat too much, buy too much, and want too much. We set ourselves on the fruitless mission of filling the gaping hole within us with material things....

—Vironika Tugaleva

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