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• n  someone with great regard for material possessions
• n  someone who thinks that nothing exists but physical matter

• I consider myself a true materialist.
• The infuriated youths burning cars and stoning police in the dismal suburbs of Paris, Toulouse, Lille, Rennes and beyond are demanding a piece of France's modern, materialist dream .
• In the year past he has grown three inches, to six feetmore unseen materialist forces, working their will upon him.

News & Articles

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• Even Buddhist Monks Shop at a Big-Box Store
  In search of the lowest prices on the robes, books, and candles you'll need for your anti-consumerist, anti-materialist life as a Buddhist monk? Thailand’s Hang Sangkapan — rough translation: Monk Supply — has just the thing. Inspired by big-box food stores like Carrefour, founder Sakol Sangmalee opened the first-of-its-kind Hang ... More »        
  July 23, 2013 - New York Magazine

Quotes

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• Friedrich Engels in Socialistworker.co.uk
  Frederick Engels explained, "According to the materialist conception, the determining factor in history is the production and reproduction of immediate life:" "On the one side, the production of the means of existence, of food, clothing and...
• GK Chesterton in NewsByUs
  Chesterton writes, "For we must remember that the materialist philosophy......is certainly much more limiting than any religion......The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable...
• Harold W. Attridge in Newsweek
  Maybe people are getting religion in the face of the materialist empire, maybe jobs are scarce out there,adds Harold Attridge, Yale's dean. "Divinity school looks good, especially if there's financial aid and i-banking isn't as attractive...