"Anything you can acquire is only another thing you'll lose."

Materialism, Loss, Impermanence, Attachment

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"I am a good toy , guaranteed you will enjoy till you will play with me. and i am quite also . i do not do any complaint as you will throw-out me after get new one.and you do not need to worry. i do not have heart feelings and emotions so i do not feel pain and hurt. I am toy. i am just a toy of other's hand for entertain them."

Mohammed Zaki Ansari, Indian Writer

Materialism, Pain, Emotion, Neglect, Identity

"For our radically misnamed "materialistic civilization must above all cultivate the love of material, of earth, air, and water, of mountains and forests, of excellent food and imaginative housing and clothing, and of cherishing our artfully erotic contacts between human bodies. Certainly, all these so"called "things are as impermanent as ripples in water, but what life, what love, what energy is there in a perfectly pure abstraction or a totally solid and eternally indestructible rock?"

Alan Watts, English Philosopher

Materialism, Observation, Truth, Wisdom

"You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world."

Jonathan Anthony Burkett, American Author

Materialism, Money, Power, Attraction

"Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

Materialism, Money, Escape, Perfection, Wealth

"If the only thing keeping your partner in relationship with you is your money, then be prepared to lose that person to someone else with more money than you."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

Materialism, Relationship, Money, Values, Love

"It's unfortunate how some people complain about being financially unstable, yet they use their last savings to acquire material things."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

Materialism, Poverty, Choice, Money

"If money don't buy happiness, what the hell does?"

Lois Greiman, American Author

Materialism, Money, Happiness, Irony

"Money may not be able to buy her love but it will definitely make her pay attention."

Habeeb Akande, British Historian

Materialism, Money, Attention, Love

"A brand-new tape recorder, completely worn out. Bought with funny money that the store is willing to accept. Worthless money, worthless article purchased; it has a sort of logic to it."

Philip K. Dick, American Writer

Materialism, Values, Money, Logic

"Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people."

Wayne Gerard Trotman, British Author

Materialism, Greed, Values, Humanity

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"If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin."

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"By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself."

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"You gain power by pretending to be weak."

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"You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you know that, you are useless!"

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"And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight."

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"If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can."

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"I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing."

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"You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world."

"Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping."

"If the only thing keeping your partner in relationship with you is your money, then be prepared to lose that person to someone else with more money than you."

"It's unfortunate how some people complain about being financially unstable, yet they use their last savings to acquire material things."

"If money don't buy happiness, what the hell does?"

"Money may not be able to buy her love but it will definitely make her pay attention."

"A brand-new tape recorder, completely worn out. Bought with funny money that the store is willing to accept. Worthless money, worthless article purchased; it has a sort of logic to it."

"Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people."

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"Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it."

"We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion."

"If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin."

"By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself."

"You gain power by pretending to be weak."

"You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you know that, you are useless!"

"And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight."

"I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing."