Material Quotes

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Faith was the raw material substance that the Spirit of God used to form the universe. — Kenneth Copeland
All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. . . . He… — Robert McNamara
Admittedly, key archival documentation remains under lock and key and will be inaccessible for a long time to come. But enough material is available, in… — Fredrik Logevall
I thinkâ€¦to give. In the best way I can, through song and through dance and through music. I mean, I am committed to my art.… — Michael Jackson
The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own,… — Emil Nolde
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another. — Anne Sullivan Macy
Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. — Jean Piaget
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the… — Hunter S. Thompson
The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness. — David Brin
And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up. — Jerry Garcia
But when it has been shown by the researches of Pasteur that the septic property of the atmosphere depended not on the oxygen, or any… — Joseph Lister
Politicians learned hundreds of years ago that people who had little material wealth were incredibly jealous of those who had more than they did. This… — Neal Boortz
It will be politics that determines the material welfare of future generations: the pace at which we advance toward "our destination of economic bliss," andnperhaps,… — Eban Goodstein
Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the musical material, though… — Glenn Gould
We believed - and I personally still believe - that the so called Voice of God narration, ubiquitous in documentaries destined for PBS, is insulting… — Jayne Loader
It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal absolute values and… — Ludwig von Mises
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality. — Edward Albee
The information contained in an English sentence or computer software does not derive from the chemistry of the ink or the physics of magnetism, but… — Stephen C. Meyer
Religion is simply an ideal. It is an ideal force that tends to free the human being from material bonds. I do not believe that… — Nikola Tesla
By and large, the Healing Dream is not the defender of our waking goals-material achievement, perfect romance, a modest niche in history-but an advocate-general for… — Marc Ian Barasch

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