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| The best things in life aren't things. (Art Buchwald) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older. (John Maynard Keynes) | [▲] | [▼] |
| There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair. (Frank A. Clark) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth. (Mahatma Gandhi) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment. (Herbert Marcuse) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment. (Mark Twain) | [▲] | [▼] |
| As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain. (Quarius) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Benefits make a man a slave. (Proverb) | [▲] | [▼] |
| There must be more to life than having everything. (Maurice Sendak) | [▲] | [▼] |
| What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.. (Seneca.) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Most people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. William R. Bradford -Anwar El-Sadat. (Anwar El-sadat) | [▲] | [▼] |
| What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more. (Seneca) | [▲] | [▼] |
| People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them. (Epictetus) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Most people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. (Anwar El-Sadat) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Our lives can become cluttered by many things. Some are obvious, such as material things, the stuff we collect. I really wish I were able to give a lesson on how to prioritize the material things-how to sort them, dispose of some, and put the rest in order-but I'm not qualified... But how well I know that we can surround ourselves with the material things to the extent that we have no time for the spiritual. Look around and you will see all the gadgets and toys and the nice and the fun things that cause us to squander and pay and to wander and play. (William R. Bradford) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life. (Eric Hoffer) | [▲] | [▼] |
| He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists. (Ludwig von Mises) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older. (John Maynard Keynes) | [▲] | [▼] |
| If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. (Henry David Thoreau) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold. (Kahlil Gibran) | [▲] | [▼] |