Material Quotes

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Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse — Arnold J. Toynbee
MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important. — Ambrose Bierce
One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have to start self… — Malcolm X
If the ingredients for happiness are not within a person, no material success or entertainment or platinum credit cards can make that person smile. — Og Mandino
Let us encourage the generosity which is typical of the young and help them to work actively in building a better world. Youth do not… — Pope Francis
Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of… — Karl Marx
We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled or… — Donella Meadows
In some socialist states well-performed work is rewarded with moral stimulants instead of material ones. However, the moral stimulants cannot be explained by materialistic philosophy.… — Alija Izetbegovic
[The Internet] is a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put… — Theodore Stevens
At first when I realized I was a romantic, I was sort of shocked and shamed. But it is true... that the material I work… — Albert Paley
Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves. Let us have charity and humility. Let us give alms because these cleanse our souls from the… — Francis of Assisi
Audacious faith is the raw material that authentic Christianity is made of. It's the stuff that triggers ordinarily level-headed people like you and me to… — Steven Furtick
Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the… — Henry Ford
I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it. — William Faulkner
Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. — Henry Ford
Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state. — Yves Klein
All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or… — John Henry Newman
Real science exists, then, only from the moment when a phenomenon is accurately defined as to its nature and rigorously determined in relation to its… — Claude Bernard
I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor… — Truman Capote
The Absolute is the material of both God and man. — Swami Vivekananda

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