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2445 Material quotes by 1790 unique authors

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 – 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
I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search… — Evelyn Waugh
There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm… — Bill Bryson
I begin with the young. We older ones are used up but my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at… — Adolf Hitler
Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. — Eric Hobsbawm
It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among… — Mark Twain
I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he… — Jon Krakauer
From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position,… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end;… — Ayn Rand
Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions. — Chuck Palahniuk
It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the… — John Irving
Miss X has always been a ditherer -- she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then. — Mary Ann Shaffer
That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But… — C.S. Lewis
Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if… — Ray Bradbury
Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he… — Henry David Thoreau
The soul is the form of the body, but not as the shape of a statue is formatio et terminatio materiae, for form does not… — Michael Flynn

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