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True affluence is not needing anything.

Gary Snyder
True affluence is not needing anything.

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
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.

Life is more than great sex and a nice car. Well, yeah. But not a lot more.

Jennifer Crusie Strange...
Life is more than great sex and a nice car. Well, yeah. But not a lot more.

The life of my people is to remember forever; each head granary is full. The life of your people is to forget: your thing granaries {"museums"}, and not yourselves, are full.

Alice Walker The Temple of My...

It had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way, with green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table. In warming himself at French...

George Eliot Middlemarch

Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it.

Barbara W. Tuchman The Proud Tower:...

Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.

Barbara W. Tuchman The First Salute

To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.

Wallace Stegner All the Little...

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 The Count of...

Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

Elisabeth Elliot Shadow of the...

The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in his pockets.

Patrick O'Brian Master and...

There is a powerful relationship between our true spiritual condition and our attitude and actions concerning money and possessions.

Randy Alcorn Money,...

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.

Barbara Kingsolver Prodigal Summer

The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn't know I exist.

Philip K. Dick Do Androids...

They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of...

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with...
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