Material Quotes

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The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: â€œMerry Christmasâ€-not â€œWeep… — Ayn Rand
What is assumed to be the materialisation of the inner truth of the self is in fact an idealisation of the material - objectified -… — Zygmunt Bauman
We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophyâ€”material or spiritual. — Jack Kornfield
I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages… — Henry Ford
I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even… — Elfriede Jelinek
The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star. — Wes Jackson
As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as… — Mary Oliver
Today certain definite ideas are developing out of the Egyptian ideas. What is called Darwinism today did not arise because of external reasons. We are… — Rudolf Steiner
As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself. — Marie-Louise von Franz
Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not....All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue… — Yves Klein
Another big problem with any Australian emissions reduction scheme is that it would not make a material difference to atmospheric carbon concentrations unless the big… — Tony Abbott
All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which… — Felix Frankfurter
I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I… — Potter Stewart
Let me introduce the word 'hypertext' to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not… — Ted Nelson
One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution,… — Barbara Hepworth
The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies. — Hippolyte Taine
When people ask me to name the Ligonier teaching material they should use to help them grow; I tell them, 'You should start with The… — R C Sproul
The book I am best known for, or only known for, is a novel I am prepared to repudiate: written a quarter of a century… — Anthony Burgess
I believe in previous lives and the Museâ€”and that books and music exist before they are written and that they are propelled into material being… — Steven Pressfield
I choose material instinctually - at the heart of it are characters that I feel are fresh and original, and allow for an opportunity to,… — Kathryn Bigelow

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