It is how societies reproduce themselves and as such, it lives in social institutions and material reality as much as it lives in the mind.

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More than its blended iconography or august, prayerful figures, however, the painter's pictorial language defines El Greco's vision of heaven: The amorphous, billowing clouds, silvery palette and mannered, phantomlike personages who float in indeterminate space and time (including, prematurely, Spain's King Philip II) defy the laws and logic of material reality to conjure another realm.

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The Neanderthals who buried their companions with such care seem to have imagined that the visible, material world was not the only reality.

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In a sense, and within limits, entrepreneurs can shape the needs and desires of customers and transform raw material in a way that changes and shapes reality.

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He argues that teenagers are surrounded by an array of suspect material and are well able to discern between fiction and reality.

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It's a material that offers so much promise, but has yet to fully leap from the drawing board out into our everyday reality.

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