Material Quotes

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While civilization is more than a high material living standard it is nevertheless based on material abundance. It does not thrive on abject poverty or… — Krafft Arnold Ehricke
I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun. — Wanda Sykes
I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something… — Wanda Sykes
I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them. — Chiang Kai-shek
I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from… — Cliff Stearns
I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In other words, with… — Jonas Mekas
The Spirit could not create matter as anything different from Itself, for it had only Itself as the tissue or material with which to build… — Paramahansa Yogananda
The benefits of science are not only material ones. The truths that science teaches are of common interest the world over. The language of science… — Arthur Compton
Biocides, for example, are designed to kill bacteriaâ€”it's not a benign material. — William Stringfellow
What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material. — Jimmy Wales
To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only… — Archie Shepp
Somebody said that my work might be an interesting source of material. — Melita Norwood
The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material--the material informs the form, — Jonathan Ive
In our quest to quickly make three-dimensional objects, we can miss out on the experience of making something that helps give us our first understandings… — Jonathan Ive
The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature. — Drew Endy
I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across. — Wallace Stegner
The documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form, to devise effective… — Paul Strand
My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience… — Jackie Mason
Even if you could use all the organic material that you have--the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues--and get them back on the… — Norman Borlaug
The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in… — Wyndham Lewis

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