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Material / Economic Self Flashcards

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According to _____ _____, _____ combines needs and desire in the form of a practical object that can also reflect the user’s identity and aspiration through its form and decoration.

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John Heskett, design

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_____ really matters from the smallest things like toothpick, spoon and fork. The kind of presentation of food that people eat up to the bigger gadgets, equipment and cars.

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Design

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refers to tangible objects, people, or places that carry the designation my or mine.

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Material Self

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Subclasses of Material Self

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Bodily Self and Extracorporeal Self

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Also known as Beyond the Body

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Extracorporeal Self

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A person speaks of my arms or my legs. These entities are clearly an intimate part of who we are. But our sense of self is not limited to our bodies.

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Bodily Self

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The parts of our body

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Bodily Self

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The Extracorporeal Self is referred as the extended self by _______

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Rosenberg

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Any material possessions which extend our body.

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Extracorporeal Self

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It includes other people (my children), pets (my dog), possessions (my car), places (my home town), and the products of our labors (my painting). It is not the physical entities themselves, however, that comprise the material self.

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Extracorporeal Self

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  • According to ____ _____, the material self primarily is about our bodies, clothes, immediate family and home. He believed a person’s clothes were one way they _____ who they felt they were, or clothes were a way to show status, thus contributing to forming and maintaining one’s ___-___.
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James Rosenberg, expressed, self-image

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A French Critical theorist and was one of the first to observe the relationship that people have with objects and in particular looked at objects as signs or things which could be decoded to convey messages beyond their practical value.

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Roland Barthes

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He popularized the field of semiology

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Roland Barthes

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is anything that conveys meaning

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Sign

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The study of object as sign

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semiology

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Elements of Semiology

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Signifier and Signified

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refers to its physical form (e.g. Diamond Ring)

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Signifier

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refers to mental concepts (E.g. Engaged to be married)

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Signified

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In _________ _____, _____ functions as signifiers in the production of meaning they construct a meaning and carry a message, which as a member of a culture one can understand.

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Semiotic analysis, Objects

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Examine how words, photographs, images and objects work as language to communicate a range of ideas, associations, and feelings.

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Semiotic or Semiology

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are the extended versions of oneself

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Possessions

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The things we ___ is an extension of ourselves.
The things people ____, ____, and ____ themselves with might accurately reflect their personalities. Not surprisingly, the clothes one wear the car one drives and the furnishing of one’s home are all expression of oneself.

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own, use, own and surround

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Signify aspects of one’s sense of self and identity.

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Material Possessions

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Material Possessions are one’s ____ of ___ and ____ is influential on how an individual chooses to purchase his or her wants and he or she makes economic decisions that will address his or her personal and social needs.

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sense of self, identity

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suggests that material good can fulfill a range of instrumental, social, symbolic and affective functions

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Ditmar

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Relate to the functional properties of a product.

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Instrumental Functions

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Signify personal qualities, social standing, group affiliation and gender role

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Social Symbolic Functions

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Refer to the extent to which material possessions may be used to communicate group membership and status

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Categorical Functions

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Reflect a person’s unique qualities, values or attitudes. There are people who may represent themselves by collecting object with Hello Kitty brand.

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Self-Expressive Functions

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posits that “we regard our possessions as part of ourselves. We are what we have and what we possess”.

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Russel Belk

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Material possessions gain _____ ____ in our lifetime if we use material possession to find _____, associate these things with significant _____, ____, and ____
in our lives.

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higher value, happiness, events, accomplishments, and people

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we use them to signal to ourselves, and others, who we want to be and where we want to belong.

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Material Possesions

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However, putting too much of one’s life on the things you own may have negative effects for one’s identity

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Materialistic

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34
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material possessions that we value across time and human development

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Materialistic

35
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The idea that we can own something, is one that children grasp by the age of ___. And by __, they exhibit the “______ ____”, placing extra value on an object simply by virtue of it being or having been, theirs.

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two, six, endowment effect

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Through ______, possessions increasingly reflect who people are, or at least how they would like to see themselves.

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Adolescence

37
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Our things embody our sense of ___-______ and _____ still further, becoming ______ _____ for our memories, relationships and travels.

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self-adulthood and identity, external receptacles

38
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______ is having a self-concept that is based on what one possess either intrinsically (abilities, skills, physical appearance) or extrinsically (clothes, social environment) _____ & ____, 2007

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Materialism, Kashdan & Breen

39
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defined as the study of things that a person is lacking. How people make use of the things that they have and making the right decisions.

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Economics

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the condition of the person, group or region as regards to material prosperity.

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Economic Self Presentation and Identity

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the ability of an individual and families to consistently meet their needs.

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Economic Self sufficiency

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The result of socialization and professionalization of the subject that acquires a particular significance in human affairs. Includes social perceptions, attitudes, relationship and opinions of person / social groups.

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Economic Consciousness

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A psychological phenomenon that results from social categorization. The factors that affect the _____ of the individual are professional development and self determination as well as the motivational and value sphere of his personality.

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Economic Identity

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Symbolic Motives

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Status
Affective Motive
Rational Motive
Emotional Motive

45
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A symbolic motive that is defined as the extent to which people believe they can derive of recognition or achievement from owning and using the right list of products, can be an important motivator of behavior. The importance ascribed to the ownership and acquisition of manners of goods in achieving major life goals.

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Status

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A symbolic motive that is defined as a concept used in Environmental Psychological Affect (emotions) serves as a motivator of pro environmental behavior.

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Affective Motive

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A symbolic motive that is defined as goals chosen according to objective criteria

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Rational Motive

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A symbolic motive that is defined as goals chosen according to personal subjective criteria

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Emotional Motive

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the pattern of assumption that describes the consumer people may no longer consume goods and services primarily because of tis functional satisfaction.

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Consumer Identity

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Consumption has become increasingly more _____ _____ brands as often used as symbiotic resources for the construction and maintenance of identity.

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meaning biased

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People may construct their ____ ______ through the consumption of commercial brand or luxury commodities.

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social identities

52
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The preoccupation with and an inclination towards the buying of consumer goods.

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Consumerism

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Consumerism is based on the theory that an increasing consumption of goods is ______ ______.

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economically desirable

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____-____ _______ is attached to the identities of people. By ____ of ______, people respond to goods and services based on people’s assumptions that it is associated to pro social identities.

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High-class consumption, Choice of Compulsion

55
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A new field that combines behavioral and cognitive psychological theory with conventional economics and finance to provide explanation for why people make irrational financial decisions fails to choose then that person chooses to fail.

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Behavioral Finance

56
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is important when being confronted to buy something. On the other hand, when a person only buys goods because he needs them, He may feel incomplete for it lacks the joy buying for wants to provide the person.

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Decision making

57
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tries to provide answers to these instantly faces of consumer’s behavior.

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Behavioral Finance

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The study of why people buy things

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Consumer Psychology

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Psychologists try to find the underlying cognitive processes that explain ______’s _____and how they respond to the ______ of ______, as well as the external stimuli that convince people purchase certain items.

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consumers’ choices, influence of marketing

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Theories of Consumer Behavior

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Behaviorism

Cognitive Approach

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A theory of consumer behavior that is defined as People’s actions are driven by external stimuli. We become convinced to do things because of some outside influence.

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Behaviorism

62
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is the tendency of a customer to buy goods and services without planning in advance. When a customer takes such buying decisions at the spur of the moment, it is usually triggered by emotions and feelings.

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Impulsive Buying

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An impulse purchase or impulse buying is an ________ ___ to buy a product or service, made just before a purchase. One who tends to make such purchases is referred to as an____ ____ or _____ ____.

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unplanned decision, impulse purchaser or impulse buyer

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A theory of consumer behavior that suggests that our behaviors are caused mostly by our own mental processing.

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Cognitive approach

65
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Factors in Purchasing items and Services

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  1. Financial Constraints
  2. Availability of items and services
  3. Influence of family and friends
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Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

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Self-Actualization
Esteem Needs
Belongingness and Love needs
Safety needs
Physiological Needs
67
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Self-fulfilment needs consist of

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Self-Actualization

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Psychological Needs consist of

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Esteem Needs

Belongingness and Love needs

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Basic Needs consist of

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Safety needs

Physiological Needs

70
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achieving one’s full potential, including creative activities
(Morality, Creativity, Spontaneity, Problem Solving, Lack of Prejudice, Acceptance of Facts)

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Self-Actualization

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prestige and feeling of accomplishment

Self-esteem, Confidence, Achievement, Respect of Others, Respect by Others

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Esteem Needs

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intimate relationships, friends

Friendship, Family, Intimacy

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Belongingness and Love needs

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security and safety

(Security of body, of employment, of resources, of morality, of the Family, of health, of property

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Safety needs

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Food, water, warmth, rest

Breathing, Food, Water, Sleep, Homeostasis, Excretion

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Physiological Needs

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important for survival

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Needs

76
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synonymous with luxuries

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Wants

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A need is?

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Functional need

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A want is?

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Physical benefit

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A desire is?

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Emotional Satisfaction

80
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In the process of acquiring material, goods people generally consider two things:

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Utility and Significance

81
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how things serve its practical purpose

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Utility

82
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concerning the meaning assigned to the object

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Significance

83
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Family always gonna be there. The material things, they____ and ___.

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come and go

84
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The essence of life dwells in ____ ____, not the _______ _______.

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happy moments, material possessions

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