luck
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luck the luck of the draw the outcome of chance rather than something one can control.
there is luck in leisure it is often advisable to wait before acting; proverbial saying, late 17th century.
there is luck in odd numbers proverbial saying, late 16th century, a superstition similar to that in
third time lucky. The Roman poet Virgil (70–19 bc) in his
Eclogues has, ‘the god delights in an uneven number.’
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Materialism and money spending disposition as predictors of economic and personality variables.
Magazine article from: North American Journal of Psychology; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...research explored the relationships between materialism and money spending attitudes on impulse...other adults (N = 266) completed a materialism scale, portions of two money conservation...multiple regression analyses revealed that materialism and money conservation were predictive...
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"Materialism cometh"
Magazine article from: Baylor Business Review; 10/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Racehorse Owners? Research on materialism has sought to understand the factors...be a significant relationship between materialism and status consumption, since one...mankind. The increasing presence of materialism among developed countries disturbs many...
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MATERIALISM AND SOCIAL COMPARISON AMONG ADOLESCENTS
Magazine article from: Social Behavior and Personality; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Materialism and social comparison are important...figures were both positive predictors of materialism. The implications are discussed, with...processes, cognitive development, materialism, social comparison, adolescents...
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The salience of post-materialism in Canadian politics *.
Magazine article from: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology; 11/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...writings, Inglehart argued that post-materialism would replace the political cleavages...was historically contingent. Post-materialism did not become a major force in European...contemporary Canada to show that post-materialism had little lasting impact in at least...
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The salience of post-materialism in Canadian politics
Magazine article from: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology; 11/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; The Salience of Post-materialism in Canadian Politics* Dans une...writings, Inglehart argued that post-materialism would replace the political cleavages...historically contingent. Post-materialism did not become a major force in...
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Materialism in kids and adolescents linked to self-esteem
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 11/26/2007; 600 words
; ...that a young person's level of materialism is linked to their self-esteem. Factors responsible for increasing materialism in kids include peer pressure...to focus on the development of materialism among kids. Deborah Roedder John...
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MATERIALISM BEGINNING TO LOSE ITS ONCE IRON GRIP ON SCIENCE AND CULTURE.(Editorial)(Column)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 5/23/1997; 700+ words
; ...avoid eye contact between faith and materialism that many seminaries and denominational...can't hide from the consequences. Materialism - the doctrine that nature is all there...consequences of such sentiments. Now materialism is under scholarly attack as never before...
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Five dangers of materialism.(mind-body problem)
Magazine article from: Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs; 2/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...approaches offer counter-arguments to materialism (Vendler, 1994; Warner, 1994...five central dangers associated with materialism that ultimately result in (a) the...for psychic holism. The Spectrum of Materialism Beginning with Democritus and Epicurus...
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Negativity and dialectical materialism: Zhang Shiying's reading of Hegel's dialectical logic.(Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)
Magazine article from: Philosophy East and West; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Western descriptions of dialectical materialism in China make it appear to be an over...studies--when it came to dialectical materialism, with visions of it as a totalized...readers pause. Chinese dialectical materialism has been dismissed as irrelevant and...
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Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality: Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Sexuality: Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism. Accents on Shakespeare. London...He notes that the term cultural materialism comes from Raymond Williams and that...s accusation in 2003 that cultural materialism had become "ossified, predictable...
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Materialism
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Materialism Materialism is a philosophical doctrine of existence that argues that human...mind, the mind is unable to exist without corporeality. Because materialism in its most basic and unifying sense as a doctrine relies on the...
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Materialism, Dialectical
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Materialism, Dialectical Dialectical materialism was the name given by the doctrinaires and political stalwarts...regarded it more as an ideology, but either way dialectical materialism was a constituent part of the major political innovation...
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Historical and Dialectical Materialism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
HISTORICAL AND DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM. Historical and dialectical materialism are doctrines in the philosophy of history and...While in the later twentieth century dialectical materialism all but faded away, historical materialism has...
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Materialism in Eighteenth-Century European Thought
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
MATERIALISM IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPEAN THOUGHT. Materialism is the generic name of a variety of doctrines that deny the existence of non-material substances. Materialism may be either a metaphysical or a methodological concept...
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materialism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
materialism In sociology and related disciplines, the word materialism has three quite distinct meanings which are, however...moral or political controversy, according to which materialism refers to a prevailing pattern of desire for mere...
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