"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."

Materialism, Values, Money, Logic

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"Man with his new powers became rich like Midas but all that he touched had gone dead and cold."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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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

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"Some men like shiny new toys. Others like the priceless antique."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

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"Loving money is more of a problem for those who do not have it."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"What keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through things doesn't work. The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more and keep buying and consuming."

Eckhart Tolle, German Author

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"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

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"Mysterious money had stood to him as the symbol of earthly good, and the immediate object of toil. He had seemed to love it little in the years when every penny had its purpose for him; for he loved the purpose then. But now, when all purpose was gone, that habit of looking towards the money and grasping it with a sense of fulfilled effort made a loam that was deep enough for the seeds of desire."

George Eliot, British Author

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"In a materialistic society, there's no such a thing as a 'romantic' broke man."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"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

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"Money isn't everything. It's the only thing."

Rebecca McNutt, Canadian Author

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"The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking."

Life, Time, Being, Trouble

"This is a mournful discovery.1)Those who agree with you are insane2)Those who do not agree with you are in power."

Power, Madness, Authority, Conflict

"We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, 'What is real?' Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms."

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"An android, he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for.""Then, Miss Luft said, "you must be an android."

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"We human beings are created and yet we are more rational than the creator himself who spawned us."

Philosophy, Creation, Logic, Superiority

"I should not yield to it, he told himself once again as he walked along carrying the briefcase. Compulsion-obsession-phobia. But he could not free himself. It in my grip, I in its, he thought."

Psychology, Obsession, Fear, Mind, Control

"And yet now and then he let himself steal a glance at her. Lovely dark colors of her skin, hair, and eyes. We are half-baked compared to them. Allowed out of the kiln before we were fully done. The old aboriginal myth; the truth, there."

Identity, Skin, Colors, Myth, Truth

"The cries of the dead are terrible indeed, you should try not to hear them."

Death, Fear, Warning, Sound

"We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine."

Existence, Humanity, Divine, Struggle

"You know, the way I feel, if I read a science fiction book by a new writer which is a lot better than what I do, instead of going on a bummer right away and saying, "Oh Christ, I'm obsolete, I'm outdated, I've lost it. I have this tremendous sense of joy. I don't have to write all the great goddamn science fiction in the world. Somebody else is going to carry this torch. It's such a relief to sit with my feet up on the wall and to know that if I never wrote another book science fiction is going ahead."

Art, Joy, Future, Writing