Material Quotes

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If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when… — Alexander Hamilton
If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when… — George Washington
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material. — Alan Kay
There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor - Jesus. We take vows of chastity to love… — Mother Teresa
I was taught that the world had a lot of problems; that I could struggle and change them; that intellectual and material gifts brought the… — Marian Wright Edelman
The subconscious mind makes no distinction between constructive and destructive thought impulses. It works with the material we feed it, through our thought impulses. The… — Napoleon Hill
Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves-our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our… — William E. Simon
In the 80s, in the cover band I was in, we'd slip in original material. If you didn't say anything about it, people just didn't… — Andy Wilkinson
I wanted to do a set of love songs for Valentine's Day so I went through my old material. I found myself scraping around the… — Tom Rush
If you get a song right for its usage at the time, it can be useful to others. ...Those songs are more friendly to other… — Rodney Crowell
How to avoid cliche at the root of conception? Practice sincerity. If we've come by ... material honestly, through our own personal experience or imagination,… — Peter Selgin
Something like going to get the newspaper can increase your writing efficiency by taking you away from the material. When I'm doing other things, writing… — Nathaniel Philbrick
Enthusiasm is big. When I write a book, it's a three-year commitment. Toward the end, I'm writing seven days a week, and it's exhausting but… — Nathaniel Philbrick
I typically will work on a lyric in a three-ring binder. On the right side, I'll write the lyric, and on the left side, I… — James Taylor
Barack and I were both raised by families who didn't have much in the way of money or material possessions but who had given us… — Michelle Obama
People think once you get famous and rich you move out of the public sphere and you have nothing left to write about. I've heard… — Paul McCartney
I have all these computers and keyboards and synthesizers, and I rattle away. For instance, with The Lion King I wrote over four hours worth… — Hans Zimmer
Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested. Every man has in him the potentiality of attaining to perfect saintliness, Rishihood, or to the most… — Swami Vivekananda
Congressional investigations...are still being held on the problem of unidentified flying objects and the problem is one in which there is quite a bit of… — William Hanes Ayres
The evidence points to the fact that Roswell was a real incident and that indeed an alien craft did crash, and that material was recovered… — Edgar Mitchell

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