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  1. Alice Walker _ The Temple of My Familiar

    The life of my people is to remember forever; each head granary is full. The life of your people is to forget: your thing granaries {"museums"}, and not yourselves, are full.
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  2. George Eliot _ Middlemarch

    It had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way, with green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table. In warming himself at French social theories he had brought away no smell of scorching. We may handle even extreme opinions with impunity while our furniture, our dinner-giving, and preference for armorial bearings in our own ease, link us indissolubly with the established order.
    book-quotematerialism

  3. Barbara W. Tuchman _ The March of Folly: From Troy

    Far from a source of suffering, their adopted faith had been a source of power.
    book-quotematerialismdistraction

  4. Barbara W. Tuchman _ The Proud Tower: A Portrait of

    All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre.
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  5. Barbara W. Tuchman _ The Proud Tower: A Portrait of

    Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it.
    book-quotematerialismself-gratification

  6. Barbara W. Tuchman _ The Proud Tower: A Portrait of

    Chronicling future appeasing Prime Minister Joseph Chamberlain's rise to Parliament from first-generation commercial interests rather than the aristocracy, the author diagnoses even then that he had no center outside himself.
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  7. Barbara W. Tuchman _ The First Salute

    Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.
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  8. Barbara W. Tuchman _ The Proud Tower: A Portrait of

    In proportion that property is small, the danger of misusing the franchisee is great.
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  9. Wallace Stegner _ All the Little Live Things

    To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.
    book-quotematerialismpossessions

  10. Alexandre Dumas _ The Count of Monte Cristo

    Why does a steward steal? He steals because he's not sure he'll always remain with his master and wants to make his future secure.
    book-quotematerialismsecuritystewardship

  11. Bill Bryson _ At Home: A Short History of

    The author says the earliest Australian aborigines devoted extraordinary amounts of energy to enterprises no one now can understand.
    book-quotematerialismlegacyheritage

  12. Elisabeth Elliot _ Shadow of the Almighty: The

    Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!
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