"Basic material wealth is a necessity, " observed Zhou, executive editor of the English-language newspaper, China Daily.
And this illusion was that material wealth does not make that much of a difference in how happy people are.
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And no amount of material wealth is worth such soullessness and malaise.
"His Majesty has no desire for material wealth, " says a cabinet minister.
An increase in material wealth has not diminished many of the social problems associated with the most deprived parts of our society.
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Material wealth may be the common thread, but as Richard finds out there is much more to wealth than merely sporting a fat wallet.
According to Malveaux, African Americans spend for the same reasons other Americans do, buying into mass media and our cultural images that associate status and satisfaction with material wealth.
Perhaps this shock will give rise to a new economic model in the West in which liberty and environmental sustainability have measurable value, to counteract our current infatuation with material wealth.
The slate industry may have brought these communities little material wealth, a lot of hard work, and, in the days before "health and safety" were the watchwords, too many untimely deaths from injury or dust-related illnesses.
"It's hardly surprising that in the circumstances of a financial crisis that blew a hole in our material wealth and left us with a large deficit to reduce, people took a somewhat gloomier view then than they had done previously, " he said.
My research since 1998 about the American Dream has shown its definition evolving away from material wealth and toward spiritual happiness (both secular and religious.) So this drop in belief hints that our economic and political problems are shaking American confidence about the future and even our way of life.
Amid all of this messy thinking we miss the simple truth behind our material wealth: It has been achieved through the accumulation, by us and inherited from our forefathers, of a stock of highly configured and embedded tools that make human effort more effective and things possible that never were before.
Mr. JONES: And it was based not on material wealth, and it was based on who you were as a person and what you were willing to give up and what you were willing to do, not just for yourself, but for the elders, for the children, for those who come in behind you to make a path easier for them.
There is no scarcity in the Islamic world, rather there is an abundance of natural resources, material reserves and wealth, but how great a tragedy it is that a major portion of their wealth is utilized by the enemies through deposits in foreign banks, or spent in extravagance, debauchery, undue luxuries, and immoralities.
This model has provided an unprecedented wealth of material to researchers and fat profits to publishers.
"There's probably a wealth of material in there charting the entire history of Gloucester, possibly even from prehistoric times, " he said.
Mr Blustein has mined a wealth of material, some of it from the notes and recollections of those present at closed-door meetings.
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Ms Doyle, who visited the archive in August, told the BBC the papers contained "an extraordinary wealth of material about key human rights cases".
With the wealth of material coming in daily to TV broadcast archives and prioritization of profit-making activities, it is easy not to see their role in contributing to the preservation of national heritage.
The previous installments were criticized for being derivative and repetitive, but this new game has a wealth of new material.
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With material prosperity less dependent upon physical materials, wealth exploded in the industrial countries and spread to most of the poorer countries.
Much of that fell by the wayside for the Moody Bluegrass album as a wealth of singers and instrumentalists converted the material into the bluegrass vernacular.
Over the centuries men and women alike have dedicated their lives to the attainment of wealth, and with it the accompanying social and material rewards.
When politics becomes a machine for generating and rewarding wealth for a tiny elite, neither our pride nor our more primal appetite for material goods are offended most.
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