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Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
Fidel Castro / Former Prime Minister Of Cuba
Sorry
Stills
Dialectical
Still
Materialist
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I think the materialist conception of history is valid.
Christopher Hitchens / Author
Conception
Thinking
Materialist
Valid
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The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
Malcolm De Chazal / Writer
Heels
High Heels
Idealism
Idealist
Tiptoes
Walks
Materialist
Tiptoe
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The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.
Lionel Blue / Rabbi
Acknowledge
Secular
Spiritual
Thinking
World
Cares
Ecclesiastical
Materialist
Thinks
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A materialist age makes neurotics of those who measure their life in minutes. Teetotalling totalitarians know the cost of life, but not the value.
Michael J. Knowles /
Cost
Minutes
Materialist
Measure
Neurotics
Value
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Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.
Trofim Lysenko / Experimenter
Contradiction
Darwinism
Deeper
Development
Idealistic
Philosophy
Teaching
Darwin
Materialist
Presented
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A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.
Trofim Lysenko / Experimenter
Evolution
Example
Ideas
Principles
Theory
Theory Of Evolution
Darwin
For Example
Major
Introduced
Materialist
Principle
Reactionary
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I think the intellectual consistency of Christianity in historical evidence is frankly overwhelming, but my materialist colleagues regard me as a slightly sad case.
Simon Conway Morris / University Professor
Christianity
Colleagues
Consistency
Overwhelming
Regard
Frankly
Materialist
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A change in external circumstances without inner renewal is a materialist's illusion, as though man were only a product of his social circumstance and nothing else.
Jürgen Moltmann /
Illusion
Renewal
External
Circumstance
Inner
Materialist
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I'm a big believer in minimalism. Not materialist minimalism, although that's part of it, but time and energy minimalism. The body is given only so much energy a day.
James Altucher / Entrepreneur
Believer
Minimalism
Big Believer
Materialist
So Much Energy
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Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.
Marvin Olasky / Editor
Academia
Animal
High Ground
Human Beings
Machines
Most Powerful
Philosophy
Powerful
Animals
Beings
Courts
Materialist
Philosophies
Possess
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I can't help but view the world mystically. It's how I see it. I'm not a strict materialist. I think there's much more to the world than what we see with our five senses.
Scott Derrickson / Director
Senses
Strict
Materialist
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The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
John Berger / Art Critic
Dream
Imagination
Difficulty
Dog
Human Imagination
Philosophy
Practice
Within
Basket
Open
Confines
Materialist
Strictly
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There was a time when 'science' meant the systematic pursuit of knowledge through experimentation and observation. But it's rapidly becoming a synonym for progressive politics and materialist philosophy.
Eric Metaxas / Author
Experimentation
Observation
Pursuit
Synonym
Politics Science Time
Materialist
Rapidly
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I've never been a materialist; I've never been somebody who believes in only what we can see and measure. I continue to be a student of religious philosophy, and I continue to take those ideas very seriously.
Scott Derrickson / Director
Believes
Materialist
Measure
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
A. N. Wilson / Writer
Space
Human Existence
Intellectual
Mother
Mysterious
Time Space Me
Explanations
Cluster
Space Time Me
Materialist
Purely
Short Space
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Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the evolution of living nature, was antagonistic to the idealism that reigned in biology.
Trofim Lysenko / Experimenter
Appearance
Biology
Core
Evolution
Idealism
Antagonistic
Concerning
Darwin
Materialist
Reigned
Scientific
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The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors.
Trofim Lysenko / Experimenter
Features
Guilty
Marxism
Serious
Significance
Theory
Appreciating
Classics
Darwin
Darwinian
Darwinian Theory
Fully
Main
Materialist
Pointed
Unquestionably
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Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only difference between a living and a dead body is that in the one case that force is active, in the other latent.
Annie Besant / Member Of The London School Board
Men
Active
Atoms
Differences
Latent
Mysterious
Principles
Materialist
Only Difference
Regards
Temporarily
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Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.
Imran Khan / Pakistani Politician
Trust
Men
Commentary
Cricket
Interest
Opposites
Providence
Selfless
Spiritual
Spirituality
Two
Opposite
Lots
Does
Doing
Forced
Making
Materialist
No Interest
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I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was physical and that all emotions were reductive to little electrical impulses in your neurons. And I found that I didn't believe that. But what the emotions really are, I don't have an alternative theory.
Tom Stoppard / Playwright
Famous
Electrical
Neurons
Program
Radio
Scientist
Theory
Alternative
Absolutely
Absolutely Everything
Believed
Emotions
Impulses
Materialist
Physical
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