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Edward M Forster : Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership. # Materialism # Management # Desire

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Source Unknown : " Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life. " # Materialism # Management # Desire

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Raoul Vaneigem : " The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation. " # Materialism # Management # Desire

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George Washington : " I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God’s true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow. " # Materialism # Management # Desire

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Mary Mccarthy : " The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from a negative point of view, intolerable. What the foreigner finds most objectionable in American life is its lack of basic comfort. No nation with any sense of material well-being would endure the food we eat, the cramped apartments we live in, the noise, the traffic, the crowded subways and buses. American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it. " # Materialism # Management # Desire

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Julian of Norwich : " In this we shall see verily the cause of all things that He hath done; and evermore we shall see the cause of all things that He hath suffered. And the bliss and the fulfilling shall be so deep and so high that, for wonder and marvel, all creatures shall have to God so great reverent dread, overpassing that which hath been seen and felt before, that the pillars of heaven shall tremble and quake. But this manner of trembling and dread shall have no pain; but it belongeth to the worthy might of God thus to be beholden by His creatures, in great dread trembling and quaking for meekness of joy, marvelling at the greatness of God the Maker and at the littleness of all that is made. For the beholding of this maketh the creature marvellously meek and mild. Wherefore God willeth—and also it belongeth to us, both in nature and grace—that we wit and know of this, desiring this sight and this working; for it leadeth us in right way, and keepeth us in true life, and oneth us to God. And as good as God is, so great He is; and as much as it belongeth to His goodness to be loved, so much it belongeth to His greatness to be dreaded. For this reverent dread is the fair courtesy that is in Heaven afore God’s face. And as much as He shall then be known and loved overpassing that He is now, in so much He shall be dreaded overpassing that He is now. Wherefore it behoveth needs to be that all Heaven and earth shall tremble and quake when the pillars shall tremble and quake. " # Materialism # Management # Desire

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Doug Horton : " Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss. " # Materialism # Management # Desire

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Henri F Amiel : " Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. " # Materialism # Management # Desire

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Mahatma Gandhi : " Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth. " # Materialism # Management # Desire

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Mark Twain : " 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. " # Materialism # Management # Desire

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John Updike : " When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept -- the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation. " # Materialism # Management # Desire

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Edward M Forster: " Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon." # Education # Teachers and Teaching # Honor

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Edward M Forster: " Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible." # Faith

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Edward M Forster: " The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius." # History and Historians # Genius # Death and Dying

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Edward M Forster: " Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism." # Democracy # Critics and Criticism # Variety

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Edward M Forster: " Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle." # Destiny # Failure # Success

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Edward M Forster: " At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity." # Dignity # Books - Reading # Media

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Edward M Forster: " As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider." # Examinations # Education # Money

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Edward M Forster: " The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define." # Fiction # Friends and Friendship # Writers and Writing

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Edward M Forster: " We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship." # Freedom of Speech # Freedom # Power

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Edward M Forster: " America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large." # America # Freedom # Power

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