Material Quotes

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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it… — Thomas Carlyle
You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities. — Oprah Winfrey
Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot… — John Templeton
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. — E F Schumacher
It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing,… — Martha Graham
Fear arises through identification with form, whether it be a material possession, a physical body, a social role, a self-image, a thought, or an emotion.… — Eckhart Tolle
The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human… — Bill Moyers
The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance; he… — C. V. Wedgwood
As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely. — Roberta Flack
Have you watched it? A man who is too greedy about money, by and by starts having the qualities of money. He becomes just money.… — Rajneesh
Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a… — James Russell Lowell
A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or… — Samuel Johnson
We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind. To do so… — Wangari Maathai
Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest… — Hannah Arendt
...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported… — Aristotle
Not material or economic conditions in the ordinary sense, but perverse religious ideas explain the suspension of civilization in Europe from the 5th to the… — Joseph McCabe
But, as we have seen, movement does not require a mover, and modern quantum mechanics has shown that not all effects require a cause. And… — Victor J. Stenger
Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims. — H.G. Wells
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to… — Barbara De Angelis
America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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