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“A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.”

“[Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has thrown contempt on all learning that does not depend on it; and it has bribed the skeptics by giving us immense material comforts.”

Giving Doe Philosophy Doors Materials Depends Comfort Thrown Contempt Immense Skirts Skeptic Eminence

Book:Modes and Morals

Source: Modes and Morals

“When a little pleasure has flashed for a moment against the dark, I have made that jewel mine. I have hundreds of them ... I call it my Necklace of Perfect Joy. When the world goes wrong, I have only to close my eyes and remember all the links in my chain, set with gems, some large and some small, but all beautiful with the beauty which never fades. It is all I can take with me when I go. My material possessions must stay behind, but my Necklace of Perfect Joy will bring me happiness to the end, when I put it on, to be nevermore unclasped.”

“In recent years our knowledge of modern technology has increased considerably, and as a result we have witnessed remarkable material progress, but there has not been a corresponding increase in human happiness. There is no less suffering in the world today, and there are no fewer problems. Indeed, it might be said that there are now more problems and greater dangers than ever before.”

Source: Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra

“No matter how many possessions we acquire, they will not provide us with any lasting happiness and freedom. On the contrary, it is often our pursuit of material possessions that causes our problems. If we want ultimate happiness and freedom from suffering, we must engage in the supreme practices of training the mind. There is no other way.”

“An incipient Mother Man has always inhabited my deeper self; creativity has always been my companion ... I have tried to express myself in a very definite style but by means of all kinds of materials and formats. I wish to discover how my own creativity unfolds under different circumstances... Naples is a dilemma that fatally elicits an oneiric interpretation and I love it and feel grateful because it has nurtured my fantasy.”

Men Feels Kind Mean Different Self Mother Wish My Own Creativity Fantasy Style Materials Circumstances Grateful Deeper All Kinds Companion Interpretation Definite Dilemma Format Naples

Author:Augusto De Luca

“I am proud that for the first time in the history of Afghanistan, I am raising the flag of such a people, who are producing all material and immaterial equipment necessary for the life in this country and who make all efforts for prosperity and serendipity of the society. This glorious and magnificent red flag is the symbol of the greatness and pride of these people.”

People Firsts Country Effort Greatness Materials Pride Proud First Time Red Prosperity Symbols Glorious Afghanistan Flags Magnificent Equipment Serendipity Red Flags

Author:Nur Muhammad Taraki

“The certain way to victory...lies in making everything on Imperial soil contribute to the war effort...combining the total material and spiritual strength of the nation...”

Way War Spiritual Lying Certain Nations Effort Materials Victory Soil Combining Spiritual Strength

Author:Yoshijiro Umezu

“I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're fifty-one or sixty-one. They should write other novels first, to learn their craft; they shouldn't cut their teeth on the valuable material of childhood because they'll never have better material, ever, to work with.”

Should Writing Firsts Age Novel Cutting Childhood Materials Twenties Valuable Teeth Crafts Fifty Sixty Autobiography Twenty One Youngsters

Author:Laura Z. Hobson

“Polar fleece is a plush, spongy, totally artificial material that weighs nothing and conveys no quality of warmth or coolness; in fact, you can wear it in the most bitter weather or in the hottest heat. Polar fleece looks neither flimsy and light nor hearty and warm. It has no historical, cultural, or physical association with a place, a season, a society, or any living thing. It is the first existential fabric - eminentaly useful, meaningless, dissociated and weird.”

Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

“If you see me on Friday, you'll see different material on Saturday night.”

Ifs Different Night Materials Saturday Friday Saturday Night Happy Friday

Author:Kathy Griffin

“The idea that money brings power and independence is an illusion. What money usually brings is the need for more money - and there is a shabby and pathetic powerlessness that comes with that need. The inability to risk new lives, new work, new styles of thought and experience, is more often than not tied to the bourgeois fear of reducing one's material standard of living. That is, indeed, to be owned by possessions, to be governed by a sense of property rather than by a sense of self.”

“People who know their worth can live austerely; it's the people nagged by the gnawing knowledge of their own cheapness who have that eternal necessity for submerging themselves in what they feel is superlative in material things, as if fine possessions could make them fine.”

People Ifs Knows Feels Materials Fine Eternal Possession Material Things Superlatives Cheapness

Author:Mabel Seeley

“The craving for colour is a natural necessity just as for water and fire. Colour is a raw material indispensable to life. At every era of his existence and his history, the human being has associated colour with his joys, his actions and his pleasures.”

Humans Action Joy Water Natural Human Beings Pleasure Existence Fire Materials Eras Colour Indispensable Craving Raw Materials Water And Fire

Author:Fernand Leger

“I faced a number of challenges whilst I built Biocon. Initially, I had credibility challenges where I couldn't get banks to fund me; I couldn't recruit people to work for a woman boss. Even in the businesses where I had to procure raw materials, they didn't want to deal with women.”

People Want Challenges Deals Numbers Materials Built Fund Boss Credibility Raw Materials Recruit

Author:Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

“My final words of advice to you are educate, agitate and organize; have faith in yourself. With justice on our side I do not see how we can loose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is battle for freedom. It is the battle of reclamation of human personality.”

“Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all.”

Simple Clear Materials Simplicity Spares

Author:Peter Matthiessen

“With material wealth and in a culture where many of us defines our self-worth by what we have and what we own and what we achieve, it's very hard to comprehend that there are enclaves all over our big country in which people are very purposefully choosing to maintain different values.”

People Different Self Country Hard Bigs Values Culture Wealth Achieve Materials Self Worth Material Wealth Different Values

Author:Debra Granik

“When I first started doing the quieter, more acoustic material in Swans, there was a lot of derision and outright hatred from the audience and press, just as in the early days of Swans when we were rejected outright because of the bludgeoning, single-minded violence of the music.”

Firsts Audience Violence Materials Hatred Presses Rejected Acoustics Swans Derision

Author:Michael Gira

“In my Comedy Club sets, I just work on what is fresh and try to build that show as long as I can. I don't like to do burnt material on stage. Even though my crowd loves to hear me do old stuff, I don't like to do old stuff.”

Trying Long I Can Shows Stuff Comedy Stage Materials Crowds Clubs Comedy Clubs Old Stuff

Author:Ron White

“I get my most creative energy after a show, so I love to go back to the hotel and compose new material. I generally do it in a rush. I have to get it out, otherwise I can't sleep.”

I Can Shows Energy Sleep Creative Materials Hotel Can't Sleep Creative Energy I Can't Sleep

Author:Jason Mraz

“I was in my late thirties and decided my intention in life had nothing to do with the acquiring of material things, but rather it was now my intention to experience the evolution of my own soul and to grow spiritually. I wanted to come to know the highest truths of life and to express those truths in action, through myself. I wanted to become the grandest version of the greatest idea I ever held about who I am in regards to my relationship with God.”

Knows Ideas Soul Action Wanted Grows My Own Materials Evolution Late Highest Decided Regard Intention Who I Am Versions Truth Of Life Relationship With God Material Things

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“There are novels that end well, but in between there are human beings acting like human beings. And human beings are not perfect. All of the motives a human being may have, which are mixed, that's the novelists' materials. That's where they have to go. And a lot of that just isn't pretty. We like to think of ourselves as really, really good people. But look in the mirror. Really look. Look at your own mixed motives. And then multiply that.”

People Thinking Humans Wells Looks May Ends Human Beings Perfect Acting Novel Materials Mirrors Novelists Motive Good People Not Perfect

Author:Margaret Atwood

“So, you know, I think any life has in it enough material, enough points of departure, to fuel a writer's career and that we shouldn't worry about what we're not but to try to focus on what we are and what we do know.”

Thinking Knows Trying Enough Careers Worry Focus Materials Fuel Departure

Book:Conversations with John Updike

Source: Conversations with John Updike

“I'm not sure I really am a Humanist. I describe myself as a rigorous agnostic, which means that you cannot declare as a matter of material truth something that is in fact a matter of spiritual belief.”

Mean Matter Facts Spiritual Belief Materials Not Sure Humanist Agnostic Describe Myself Spiritual Beliefs

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Meditation will change your life for the better, enhance your physical health, improve your sleep, and help you achieve your goals, both material and spiritual.”

Helping Spiritual Goal Sleep Meditation Achieve Materials Changing Your Life Physical Health Achieving Your Goals

Author:Deepak Chopra

“[Television viewing] is a one-way transaction that requires the taking in of particular sensory material in a particular way, no matter what the material might be. There is, indeed, no other experience in a child's life that permits quite so much intake while demanding so little outflow.”

Way Children Littles Matter Might Television Particular Materials No Matter What One Way Permit Transactions Sensory

Book:The Plug-in Drug: Television, Computers, and Family Life

Source: The Plug-in Drug: Television, Computers, and Family Life

“Wool, cotton, and the odd bits of silk and cashmere are the only acceptable materials for Prep clothes. They look better. They require professional maintenance. They are more expensive.”

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Book:The official preppy handbook

Source: The official preppy handbook

“Above all, Alzheimer wanted the medical world to recognize that mental illnesses have an undeniable material component. There was an obvious political reason for taking such a position because it could then be established that dementia-like conditions are not part of the spiritual/theological domain, but undeniably biological in origin and therefore not attributable with moral implications.”

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Author:Margaret M. Lock

“Cars aren't merely modes of transit or material possessions to Texans; they are something of a state treasure. We share a special, almost religious attachment to the automobile, rooted, I suppose, in our mythological relationship to the horse, our economic underpinnings in the oil industry, and the inescapable fact that to get anywhere in this state, you have to cover a lot of ground.”

States Facts Religious Share Economic Special Car Materials Industry Horse Possession Oil Treasure Attachment Rooted Automobile Material Possessions Texan Oil Industry

Author:Jim Atkinson

“The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.”

Humans Important Play Roles Materials Connections Motifs Human Psyche

Author:Stanislav Grof

“In order to have enough of the raw materials...which will be lacking in wartime, we should plan to acquire and use foreign resources existing in our expected sphere of influence, such as Sakhalim, China, and the Southern Pacific.”

Should Enough Use Order Plans Influence Materials Resources China Expected Acquire Southern Spheres Lacking Pacific Raw Materials Wartime Sphere Of Influence

Author:Sadao Araki

“The more a man is successful in getting out (or coming out) from his own individuality, of his egoist self, and to control (or dominate) the instincts of his physical nature, the more his character, by rising above material contingencies, widen, become free and independent.”

Men Self Character Successful Materials Independent Instinct Individuality Rising Coming Out Rise Above Contingency

Author:African Spir

“Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue (or subjugate...) nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it. For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display (or deployment) of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure (or enjoyment). It is not the first time that men sell their birth right for a dish of lentils, and thus disown (or repudiate or deny) the best of thmeselves.”

Ifs Men Firsts Said Done Law Pleasure Materials Birth Activity First Time Sells Slave Profit Deny Thanks Enjoyment Display Dishes Said And Done Deployment Lentils

Author:African Spir

“Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.”

Stuff Principles Design Materials Intellectual Affair Civilized Civilized Society Guiding Principles

Author:Walter Gropius

“We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.”

Government Technology Materials Industry Majors Espionage

Author:Julian Assange

“In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.”

Materials Wikileaks

Author:Julian Assange

“One reason there are so many unhappy Christians is they feel God should be doing them favors and heaping upon them material rewards and benefits, rather than working as a Carpenter to shape their lives back into His own image.”

Feels Should Reason Christian Materials Shapes Benefits Rewards Favors Unhappy Carpenter

Author:Jamie Buckingham

“Students need to make their own choices about reading material and writing topics.”

Needs Writing Choices Reading Students Materials Topics

Book:Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits

Source: Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits

“As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000.”

Writing Important Stories Media Materials Organization Prison Partners Release My Time Revelations Solitary Cables Basements Robust Victorian Confinement Wikileaks Solitary Confinement

Author:Julian Assange

“We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on.”

Humans Effort Quality Rights Groups Materials Normal News Organization Responsible Human Rights Harm Lawyer Engagement Publishing

Author:Julian Assange

“What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes.”

Should War Answers Quality Clear Materials Shapes Benefits Perception Iraq Quality Of Life Conducting Save A Life

Author:Julian Assange

“I go on at least 2-3 auditions a week in the pursuit of more work. So I'm constantly working on material and constantly honing and trying to perfect a craft that is never perfectible - it's always new, and it's always different. It's always a work in progress.”

Trying Different Perfect Progress Week Materials Goes On Pursuit Crafts Auditions Work In Progress Honing

Author:Jake Busey

“You are successful if you are able to work on the kind of material that you want to - if your life conforms to your dreams, regardless of outside acceptance or acclaim.”

Ifs Want Kind Dream Able Successful Acceptance Materials Your Dreams Conform Acclaim

Author:James Franco

“I like working in both movies and television. Television is faster, not very much rehearsal and a lot of material is shot in a day. Big budget movies are luxurious in terms of the schedule. Independent films often shoot fast as well.”

Wells Bigs Film Term Television Materials Shots Independent Faster Budgets Schedules Rehearsal Independent Film Luxurious

Author:Juliet Landau

“Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.”

Ifs School Students Materials Strikes Aliens Pointless

Book:The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and how Schools Should Teach

Source: The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and how Schools Should Teach

“The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they're artistic or understand the point of the material, not just because they fit a certain bill aesthetically.”

People Mean Certain Materials Involved Fit Bills Artistic Scope

Author:Ryan Phillippe

“Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort, Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]”

Ifs Thinking Men Believe Materials

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.”

People Names Roles Materials Size

Author:Ruth Negga

“There are two kinds of happiness - the temporary pleasure derived primarily from material comfort alone and another more enduring comfort that results from the thorough transformation and development of the mind. We can see in our own lives that the latter form of happiness is superior because when our mental state is calm and happy, we can easily put up with minor pains and physical discomforts. On the other hand, when our mind is restless and upset, the most comfortable physical facilities do not make us happy.”

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