Material Quotes

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In my travels I have found that those who keep Heaven in view remain serene and cheerful in the darkest day. If the glories of… — Billy Graham
We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race. — John Naisbitt
We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from… — R. D. Laing
I believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages even now are being written. I believe this because the… — Ronald Reagan
For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity… — Virginia Woolf
We are for aiding our allies by sharing some of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we are… — Ronald Reagan
Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature. — Immanuel Kant
It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If… — Plutarch
Mating Strategy is influenced by the cardinal fact that women have more at stake in sexual activity than men, because of the limited age span… — E. O. Wilson
My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal. — Scott Berkun
Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent… — Alan D. Eames
There are these two kinds of gifts: a gift of material things & a gift of the Dhamma. Of the two, this is supreme: a… — Gautama Buddha
I knew that most people never see this reality because they attach to the material aspect of the world. Illusions of self and other fill… — Gautama Buddha
Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than of the land… — Luther Standing Bear
[The] dynamics of computational artifacts extend beyond the interface narrowly defined, to relations of people with each other and to the place of computing in… — Lucy Suchman
Contrary to what they tell you... You are not a limited material being. — Amit Goswami
Art is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal. — Calvin Seerveld
For those of us who can't be active on the front lines - and this will be most of us - our job is to… — Lierre Keith
The story, I like to say and remember, is always smarter than youâ€”there will be patterns of theme, image, and idea that are much savvier… — Lucy Corin
The very act of committing an experience to the page is necessarily an act of reduction, and regardless of craft or skill, vision or voice,… — Bret Anthony Johnston

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