Material Quotes

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Let's be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the spiritual aspects of our lives. — James A. Forbes
To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended. — Ian Mcewan
I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this… — Christopher Hitchens
Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was not Chef Boy-Ar-Dee… — Bill Watterson
Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows. — Joyce Carol Oates
The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children,… — Betty Friedan
He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get… — Sam Harris
No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American. — Anthony Bourdain
So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence â€“ not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream of… — Thomas Pynchon
Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the… — Theodor Adorno
Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for… — Marcel Proust
Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. — Virginia Woolf
So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a… — Ayn Rand
We ask God to endow human souls with justice so that they may be fair and may strive to provide for the comfort of all… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want… — Mark Twain
There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. ...But success also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships,… — Deepak Chopra
It is a kind of pride to insist that none of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for this is only… — Thomas Merton

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