Material Quotes

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Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested.… — Sri Aurobindo
People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material subsistence and to… — Rudolf Rocker
I'm more of a creative learner, ... I do very well in projects, but I was not good at memorizing all of that material in… — Robert Sternberg
On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are… — Alfred Russel Wallace
We do not need more material development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more moral power. We… — Calvin Coolidge
We are compelled by reflection to recognize that God is not to be placed against the material world [as in Christianity], but must be placed… — Ernst Haeckel
The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its significance at seventy.… — Siri Hustvedt
A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization the state of affairs, arising out of a struggle against poverty, has overshot its ultimate goal-the liberation… — Ivan Chtcheglov
About 1911 I had the idea of making for my son, who had just been born, a blanket composed of bits of fabric like those… — Sonia Delaunay
Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material. — Michael Behe
Development is not about factories, dams and roads. Development is about people. The goal is material, cultural and spiritual fulfilment for the people. The human… — Rajiv Gandhi
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it.Â However, we must… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Stars have a life cycle much like animals. They get born, they grow, they go through a definite internal development, and finally they die, to… — Hans Bethe
No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet, — E. O. Wilson
I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life. Whenever there was a choice between music… — Barry Manilow
I still get a lot of material but I find that as one gets older you get more fussy. You know you're going spend a… — Norman Jewison
Our first single, 'Ticket To Ride', was a kind of half-hit, half flop: in some places it was number one, in others it was ash-tray… — Karen Carpenter
The most important thing for people to get is we're not even looking at one big investigation, all these agents working together. They were chopped… — Sibel Edmonds
The digestive canal is in its task a complete chemical factory. The raw material passes through a long series of institutions in which it is… — Ivan Pavlov
Marriages are best made of dissimilar material. — Theodore Parker

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