But he said people should not confuse the desire to get out of poverty and get a better standard of living with being a gross materialist.

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First, call me a traditionalist, call me a scientific-materialist, call me whatever you want, but I wanted whoever was going to guide me out of this mess to have two very simple letters after his or her name: M and D.

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She gives us a new kind of feminist and materialist realism, with an emphasis on repetitive work, much of it done by the women.

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Set loose on a seemingly boundless field of possibility, they soon see that the transient, meaningless features of materialist living and petty competition impose their own painful constraints on achievement and satisfaction.

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