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I'm more and more convinced that the sheople don't want to be awakened; they merely want their commercialistic toys and self-gratifications.
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Of course, as with God, so too with Santa there is a danger that we will use him for ideological or commercialistic ends.
Archive 2009-12-01 James F. McGrath 2009
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Of course, as with God, so too with Santa there is a danger that we will use him for ideological or commercialistic ends.
Opposing Fundamentalist Asantaists James F. McGrath 2009
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Does loyalty count for nothing in this modern commercialistic world?
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I don't believe that a desire for blindly commercialistic, exploitative mischief is the attitude of *every* corporation, however, and for what miniscule amount it is worth, I support Blizzard's right to decide whether or not trading occurs within its own virtual territory, *as long as* action resulting from that decision is executed in an intelligent and civil manner.
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We had no Vietnam, and this the only think I can pin-point to blame for the excessive commercialistic, soft generations of people that we've become.
partygirl Diary Entry partygirl 2001
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Working for the man and passively redistributing our paychecks to the bastions of commercialistic monopolies that line every strip mall that have replaced unique downtown areas in every town across America.
partygirl Diary Entry partygirl 2001
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It is at least a tenable thesis that many of the qualities which we Western men have been losing in our craze for industrialism and commercialistic
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All this, however, dangerously approximated the commercialistic ideal of high salaries only for the management with the final test of a small expense account and a large output.
Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes 1910
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It is however very powerful in making it's point - that we've all been programmed, lied to and bamboozled throughout our lives - programmed to be ignorant of the real issues that matter; to think like a herd of sheep and wrap our lives around materialism and debt - to feed the commercialistic profit making mechanisms (the industries, corporations and banks) who own and control our government through their puppet master strings.
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