While material comforts are necessary, in the end I believe self worth is more important than net worth".
"This clique, stunted by ineptitude, distracted by power games and the pursuit of material comforts, was unwilling, if not incapable, of saving our fledging new nation".
Certainly, material comforts are an important part of a happy life, but most Americans also count community, family and security as equally key components of the American dream.
"The material comforts were different, but the warmth of the family, the way they welcomed me, it was just lovely," she said.
Only in our case, sold on the idea that safety, security and material comforts are preferable to freedom, we've allowed the government to pave over the Constitution in order to erect a concentration camp.
Lousy childhoods leave their impress, parental flaws are passed down and material comfort is no stay against self-pity.
Our hearts are surely in the right place, and while virtue may be its own reward, material comfort is pretty nice too.
To Mainlanders, Hong Kong felt like a kept woman, one upon whom material comfort is bestowed at the cost of compromised dignity.
They are also told that the South Korean masses, for all their material comfort, are ashamed of being under the thumb of the Yankees and yearn to live under Kim Jong-il.
The singular insight of Adam Smith, Ferris writes, was to recognize that wealth creation and the production of material comforts might be "increased indefinitely if individuals are free to invest and to innovate".
