Materials Quotes
2455 quotes by 1811 authors
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If we were never depressed we would not be alive - - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of…
— Oswald Chambers
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We need material development, but we need to understand that by itself it doesn't bring peace of mind.
— Dalai Lama
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What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
— Lionel Trilling
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Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
— Robert Henri
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Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.
— Robert Henri
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Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory.…
— E. O. Wilson
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Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get…
— Tim Berners-Lee
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Yes, we did produce a near perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
— John Selden
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Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
— Thomas Carlyle
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What is at the heart of all national problems? It is that we have seen the hand of material interest sometimes about to close upon…
— Woodrow Wilson
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I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst…
— Marcel Proust
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Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of…
— Jules Henry
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Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of…
— Henry Ford
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Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water.…
— Carl Sagan
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We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The first entirely vital action, so termed because it is not effected outside the influence of life, consists in the creation of the glycogenic material…
— Claude Bernard
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It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.
— Francis Crick
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