Material Quotes

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I shoot people in a way that makes the audience feel equal to them. And it's hard to express and it's hard to execute but… — Michel Gondry
The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed. — Dixie Lee Ray
To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds… — Ben Shahn
Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of… — Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet. — Abdelaziz Bouteflika
We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part… — Enoch Powell
All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea. The more one limits oneself,… — Stefan Zweig
Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern setting, of course.… — Stella Gibbons
Genuine mental health would involve a balanced interplay of both modes of experience, a way of life in which one's identification with the ego is… — Fritjof Capra
The material world has only been constructed at the price of taking the self, that is, mind, out of it, removing it; mind is not… — Erwin Schrodinger
Discipline, for the Christian, begins with the body. We have only one. It is this body that is the primary material given to us for… — Elisabeth Elliot
Everybody is different and I think that we live in a material world. But for me, possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a… — Nicolas Berggruen
Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends,… — Jonas Mekas
There is no desire that anyone holds for any other reason than that they believe they will feel better in the achievement of it. Whether… — Esther Hicks
In life, there's the beginning and the end. The beginning don't matter. The end don't matter. All that matters is what you do in between… — John Carlos
The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated… — William D. Leahy
I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung — Gavin DeGraw
I believe that the average person can help a lot, not by giving material goods but by participating, by being part of the discussion, by… — Sebastiao Salgado
The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a real material world,… — Hilary Putnam
The business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own intellectual, moral, aesthetic… — Sri Aurobindo

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