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It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you. - Rob

It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you. – Robert A. Cook

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Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss. – Doug Horton

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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. – Erich Fromm

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Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership. – E. M. Forster

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The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God. – Henry Jacobsen

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