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"I think," she observes, "we lost the antimaterialistic philosophy they had...But then, it seems, so did they."

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He believes that rising inflation could bring an alliance between antimaterialistic young people and conservatives seeking a return to the old values.

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Kindlon argues that as parents, his fellow baby boomers rely too much on their permissive behavioral values and too little on the antimaterialistic values that shaped their youth.

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The challenge of "living free," seeing Europe on a shoestring and with a sleeping bag, has elements of reverse snobbism that appeal to the professed antimaterialistic instincts of youth.

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Not that Nominalism in itself, and as Leibnitz held it, is necessarily materialistic, but Realism is essentially antimaterialistic.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 by Various