Material Quotes

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The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate… — Timothy Keller
Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds. — Manuel De Landa
If we aim for what is no longer possible, we will achieve only delusion and frustration. But if we aim for genuinely worthwhile goals that… — Richard Heinberg
There are essentially two questions in life - a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is 'Who am I?' The material question… — Rasheed Ogunlaru
The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world of science. — Charles Lindbergh
It is clear from a common sense viewing of the program that coarse language is a part of the culture of the individuals being portrayed.… — Jonathan Adelstein
They started doing it in reality TV, where writers don't have union protections and are easy marks for getting this kind of material in there.… — Patric Verrone
There's a collective knowing that a dimension of reality exists beyond the material plane, and that sense of knowing is causing a mystical resurgence on… — Marianne Williamson
Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions: but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them. — Nido R Qubein
We are recipients of God's choicest blessings. We enjoy an abundance of material things beyond that enjoyed by any other nation in the history of… — Ezra Taft Benson
My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted… — Jean M. Auel
From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly… — Harry Seidler
The first approximation in this future that we're looking at is that everyone will be physically well off. They will have a great abundance in… — Ralph Merkle
I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies. — Walter Isaacson
In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics? — Bryan Caplan
The defect in wisdom and taste which exists among the majority of dancers is due to the bad education which they generally receive. They apply… — Jean-Georges Noverre
Metaphysics of Evolution: What is Matter & Life? 'Recent discoveries from Russia confirm that DNA / Genes are resonant structures which are subtly interconnected to… — Alan Haselhurst
Since the bicycle makes little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and causes little death… — S. S. Wilson
More than ever before, in our country, this is the age of the individual. Endowed with the accumulated knowledge of centuries, armed with all the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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