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“Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.”
Jean Piaget
“An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth / in short, materialism / does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.”
E. F. Schumacher
“Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.”
Cecil Beaton
“Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.”
William J. Brennan Jr.
“The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually”
Woodrow T. Wilson
“Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain. At its best, this music draws attention to complex dimensions of ghetto life ignored by most Americans. Indeed, gangsta rap's in-your-face style may do more to force America to confront crucial social problems than a million sermons or political speeches.”
Michael Eric Dyson
“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question”
Nikolai Bordyaev
“Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“WORMS'-MEAT, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material. The contents of the Taj Mahal, the Tombeau Napoleon and the Granitarium. Worms'-meat is usually outlasted by the structure that houses it, but "this too must pass away." Probably the silliest work in which a human being can engage is construction of a tomb for himself. The solemn purpose cannot dignify, but only accentuates by contrast the foreknown futility.Ambitious fool! so mad to be a show! How profitless the labor you bestow Upon a dwelling whose magnificence The tenant neither can admire nor know.Build deep, build high, build massive as you can, The wanton grass-roots will defeat the plan By shouldering asunder all the stones In what to you would be a moment's span.Time to the dead so all unreckoned flies That when your marble is all dust, arise, If wakened, stretch your limbs and yawn -- You'll think you scarcely can have closed your eyes.What though of all man's works your tomb alone Should stand till Time himself be overthrown? Would it advantage you to dwell therein Forever as a stain upon a stone? --Joel Huck”
Ambrose Bierce
