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«Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible / it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.»
Author: Barbara De Angelis
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formidable, invisible, in a moment, material, material possession, measured, offer, possession, transform
«Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.»
Author: Emile Durkheim
(Sociologist)
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accepts, Body Parts, bond, brutally, environment, escapes, governed, Great Society, imposed, material, material body, physical body, privilege, social, subject, subject to, superior, superiority, to that, transcended, transcends, yoke, yoked, yokes
«Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego»
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
| About:
Age
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accumulations, ambition, ego, material, middle, middle age, period, possessions, shedding, shell, shells
«No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.»
Author: Booker T. Washington
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ADD, continues, intellectual, material, proper, reward, well-being
«That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.»
Author: Denis Waitley
(Author, Speaker)
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accumulates, accumulating, all-time, dust, goodness, material, objects, time to come, turn to
«Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.»
Author: John Wooden
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know the score, material, possessions, Reputations, scores, the LORD, winning
«PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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brief, cupidity, disappoints, gratifies, held, indifference, material, particular, possession, property, rapacity, The Object of, The Passion