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“The most valuable lesson I've ever learned in my life is that life is about family and friends, not about material things or any of that. It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.”

Ifs Matter Life Is Enjoy Materials Lessons Fame Valuable Family And Friends About Family Material Things No Friends Valuable Lessons

Author:Vanilla Ice

“King Arthur is profoundly stupid and inept.. then there's Clive Owen, rising above it all. Aloof yet watchful, the actor cultivates an inner stillness that is perfect for faintly ironic brooders. He neither distances himself from this risible material nor pulls out the stops and opens himself to ridicule. His King Arthur tells us little about Arthur, but much about protecting one's flank. The mark of a box-office king?”

Littles Actors Perfect Stupid Materials Kings Office Mark Distance Boxes Rising Ironic Stillness Ridicule Rise Above Arthur Box Office Aloof King Arthur

Author:David Edelstein

“I think it's an intellectual duty for a person who lives in a free society to read material not only with which you agree, but with which you disagree. Because every so often somebody you think is wrong will actually turn out to be right.”

Thinking Persons Turns Materials Duty Intellectual Agree Disagree Free Society

Author:Tom Clancy

“The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.”

Spiritual Political Social Materials Method Determine Currents Productions Material Things

Author:Karl Marx

“Once you start rewriting, you're not able to stop. With each draft the fundamental banality and worthlessness of the material becomes more evident even as its vitality and spontaneity are drained from it.”

Able Materials Fundamentals Evident Vitality Spontaneity Rewriting Drained Banality Worthlessness

Author:Barry N. Malzberg

“East Asia confirms the superior capacity of industrial capitalism in raising the material standard of living of large masses of people.”

People Materials Mass Standards Capitalism Capacity East Superiors Asia Standards Of Living East Asia

Book:The capitalist revolution: fifty propositions about prosperity, equality, and liberty

Source: The capitalist revolution: fifty propositions about prosperity, equality, and liberty

“The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the men and party in power.”

Men States Party Moral He Man Materials Capable Improvement Vehicle Organisms

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“The critical thing about the design process is to identify your scarcest resource. Despite what you may think, that very often is not money. For example, in a NASA moon shot, money is abundant but lightness is scarce; every ounce of weight requires tons of material below. On the design of a beach vacation home, the limitation may be your ocean-front footage. You have to make sure your whole team understands what scarce resource you're optimizing.”

“The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.”

World Eye Loses One Thing Materials And Love One Thing After Another

Book:The letters of George Santayana

Source: The letters of George Santayana

“[The] zero-sum caricature [applies] much more accurately to socialism, which stifles the creation of new wealth and thus fosters a dog-eat-dog struggle over existing material resources.”

Wealth Struggle Dog Creation Materials Resources Socialism Zero Caricatures

Author:George Gilder

“He [Thomas Edison] considered [money] as a raw material, like metal, to be used rather than amassed, and so he kept plowing his funds into new projects. Several times he was all but bankrupt. But he refused to let dollar signs govern his actions.”

Action Used Materials Projects Dollars Fund Metals Raw Materials New Projects Plowing

Author:Charles Edison

“It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.”

Wealth Materials Shapes Increase Investment Productions Goods Material Wealth

Book:The applied theory of money

Source: The applied theory of money

“Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it offers a rival authority to the state; the family, because it means a rival loyalty to the state; and property, because it means material independence of the state.”

Mean States Three Social Materials Offers Authority Independence Institutions Property Loyalty Socialism Liberalism Rivals Private Property Social Institutions

Author:Joseph Sobran

“I'm not going out there and doing the same material every night. I have this amazing audience of fans who have been listening to me, some of them since 1975.”

Has Beens Night Audience Fans Materials Listening Every Night Going Out

Author:Emmylou Harris

“When I was younger, I did work with coach. I went to this place called Actors Space in the Valley. I was pretty young, and we were doing acting and improvisation. But no, no I didn't go to RADA, I didn't do that. But I do now work with an acting coach, primarily for the initial intellectual connection to the material.”

Young Actors Space Acting Materials Intellectual Connections Coaches Valleys Initials Improvisation

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“Well, I had done nudity in one other thing, but nudity for an actress is a very particular thing. It has to do with the material, and making sure it's not gratuitous, that it's done in a way that's shot beautifully, and it's for a reason. And I'd never played a lesbian before.”

Way Wells Reason Done Particular Materials Shots Actresses Nudity

Author:Laura Prepon

“We did tons of research. We went to visit a prison. We had speakers. We have read tons of supplementary material, books and articles. We are constantly emailing articles around the writers' room. We have dipped ourselves in prison culture and lore and media, and the experience and the people. We really want to be as informed as possible.”

People Want Book Culture Rooms Media Materials Research Prison Articles Speakers

Author:Jenji Kohan

“People have really different methods of working. Some people prepare tons and tons of material, literally on paper, and they will use as much of it as they can. Some people prepare various lines in their heads and various avenues to go. And some people show up literally going, "I know who I am and I know what the situation is, but I'm just going to see what comes out."”

People Knows Different Use Shows Lines Situation Materials Paper Method Various Who I Am Avenues

Author:Jim Piddock

“You never want to have a movie be derivative, because that's the worst if you ask me. I always want to be in original material, or an original idea, or an original vision, rather than a rehash of some other movie.”

Ifs Want Ideas Asks Vision Worst Materials Originals Ask Me Derivatives Original Ideas

Author:Dylan McDermott

“Experience shows that nothing is operated with less economy and with more waste of labor and material of every kind than public services and undertakings. Private enterprise on the other hand naturally induces the owner to work with the greatest economy in his own interest.”

Kind Shows Hands Interest Economy Materials Waste Labor Enterprise Owners Public Service Undertakings Private Enterprise

Book:Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

“Most people will see declining returns [due to inflation]. One of the great defenses if you're worried about inflation is not to have a lot of silly needs in your life - you don't need a lot of material goods.”

People Ifs Needs Materials Return Dues Defense Silly Worried Goods Inflation

Author:Charlie Munger

“As I continued through Cicero's pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life.”

Way Found Materials Pages Celebrate My Way

Author:Charlie Munger

“The pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity.”

Materials Gains Empty Eternity Pursuit

Author:Christopher Moore

“Every human being is inherently a unique and individual form of life. He or she is made like that. But there is something which a person can do over and above the given material of her nature, and that is she can become conscious of what makes her the person she is, and he can work consciously toward relating what is himself to the world around him.”

World Humans Persons Made Form Individual Given Can Do Human Beings Materials Unique Conscious

Author:Carl Jung

“I believe the ultimate aim of all human beings is to obtain happiness and a sense of fulfillment... I have always stressed the importance of combining both the mental and material approach to achieving happiness for humankind.”

Believe Humans I Believe Human Beings Achieve Materials Approach Ultimate Importance Aim Fulfillment Humankind Stressed Combining Achieving Happiness

Book:MindScience: An East-West Dialogue

Source: MindScience: An East-West Dialogue

“The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.”

Knows Men Age Form Know How Modern Materials Masters Mass Command Data Distinction Superiority Criteria Modern Age

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“In 'Birth,' I explore the nature of the new world we are approaching with my business-spiritual model, a new model for a new world. This view will enable individuals, companies and even nations to move from collapse to positive change, and bring together the spiritual and the material, giving birth to a new future.”

World Giving Together Spiritual Moving Individual Nations Views Company Materials Birth Models New World Collapse Giving Birth Positive Change New Future

Author:Shari Arison

“My show is an anti-show and the audience have to want to listen. I'm sitting down, there's only one of me, I don't talk much to the audience and it is very quiet. I wouldn't be able to do that kind of show if people didn't know me and my material.”

People Ifs Knows Want Kind Shows Able Audience Materials Quiet Sitting Know Me Sitting Down

Author:Jose Gonzalez

“Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves”

Two Enough Stories Stage Materials Abstract Dancer

Author:George Balanchine

“I am convinced that wise planning is good. But plans, like material possessions, must always be held loosely. Yes - always! Plan wisely, but be ready for God to rearrange things and take you along paths that may feel dangerous to you. Don't sweat it; He knows what He's doing. And He isn't obligated to inform you ... or request permission to upset your neat little agenda!”

Knows Feels May Littles Path Wise Plans Dangerous Ready Materials Possession Convinced Planning Upset Agendas Sweat Permission Request Neat Material Possessions

Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“God delights in providing His people with material gain and comfort, although prosperity can pose a threat to spiritual well-being.”

People Wells Spiritual Materials Comfort Gains Threat Prosperity Delight Well Being Providing

Author:Max Anders

“To know God and to find one's full satisfaction in that knowledge is the ultimate goal of Christian experience. The Lord's greatest delight comes when His people discover the ultimate value lies in the knowledge of God. Nothing in the material world can complete with the delights that are present in His Person.”

People Knows World Persons Christian Lying Values Goal Lord Materials Ultimate Satisfaction Delight Knowing God Ultimate Goal Material World Knowledge Of God

Author:Max Anders

“Intimacy with God is to be preferred above material wealth.”

Wealth Materials Intimacy Intimacy With God Material Wealth

Author:Max Anders

“We must not cast away riches which can benefit our neighbor. Possessions were made to be possessed; goods are called goods because they do good, and they have been provided by God for the good of men: they are at hand and serve as the material, the instruments for a good use in the hand of him who knows how to use them.”

Knows Men Has Beens Made Use Hands Know How Materials Benefits Instruments Casts Possession Riches Neighbor Goods Possessed Cast Away

Author:Clement of Alexandria

“Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there.”

World Has Beens Poverty Progress Materials Thirds West Contact Agents Principal Third World

Author:Peter Thomas Bauer

“Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.”

Littles Has Beens Made Heaven Nations Religious Poor Materials Cost Phantoms Raw Materials

Book:The Gods, and Other Lectures

Source: The Gods, and Other Lectures

“Whether this vast homogeneous expanse of isotropic matter is fitted not only to be a medium of physical interaction between distant bodies, and to fulfil other physical functions of which perhaps we have as yet no conception, but also to constitute the material organism of beings exercising functions of life and mind as high or higher than ours are at present is a question far transcending the limits of physical speculation.”

Mind Matter Body Materials Higher Exercise Limits Function Mediums Conception Interaction Organisms Speculation Transcending Expanse Homogeneous

Book:Scientific Papers

Source: Scientific Papers

“We have to evolve means for obtaining energy from stores which are forever inexhaustible, to perfect methods which do not imply consumption and waste of any material whatever. I now feel sure that the realization of that idea is not far off. ...the possibilities of the development I refer to, namely, that of the operation of engines on any point of the earth by the energy of the medium.”

Feels Mean Ideas Earth Energy Perfect Forever Possibility Materials Development Waste Method Stores Mediums Realization Evolve Operations Engines Consumption Obtaining

Author:Nikola Tesla

“The critics try to intellectualize my material. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that can only be understood by adults. My stuff is straight, for people of all ages.”

People Trying Age Stuff Materials Involved Understood Concepts Adults Critics Satire

Author:Andy Kaufman

“Young people are not raw material to be employed by the political class on behalf of whatever fashionable political, military, or social cause catches its fancy. In a free society, their lives are not the playthings of government.”

People Government Young Political Social Causes Class Military Materials Fancy Employed Behalf Fashionable Free Society Raw Materials

Author:Ron Paul

“...by regularly reading business newspaper and magazines I am exposed to an enormous amount of material at the micro level.. I find that what I see going on there pretty much informs me about what's happening at the macro level.”

Reading Levels Materials Amount Happenings Newspapers Enormous Magazines Exposed Macro

Author:Charlie Munger

“We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer.”

States Animal Materials Data Technological Transfers Reefs

Author:Terence McKenna

“Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.”

Men World Way Love States Past Peace Interest Materials Ambition Flow Inspirational Love Spiritual Wisdom Turmoil Cleansing Materiality

Author:Sai Baba

“"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.”

Years School Literature Written Students Materials High School High School Students

Author:Tom Clancy

“The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it. The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.”

Want Needs Giving Feels Stuff Sin Simple Grace Possibility Objects Materials Capitalism Silly Heroic Urgency Civics Silly Stuff

Author:Adam Gopnik

“I feel best in soft and natural materials such as cotton and silk. I wear collections from all designers. They all have outstanding cuts and extremely pleasant materials.”

Feels Natural Cutting Materials Designer Pleasant Collections Outstanding Silk Cotton Natural Materials

Author:Laetitia Casta

“The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.”

Men World Mind Purpose Materials Development Ultimate Progressive Mastery Material World

Author:Nikola Tesla

“I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions.”

Way Looks Novel Materials Raw Materials Inhibitions

Author:Imre Kertész

“Loving someone has great benefits. There is admiration, learning, attraction and something which, for the want of a better word, we call happiness. In loving someone, we become inspired to better ourselves in every way. We learn the true worthlessness of material things. We celebrate being human. Loving is good for the soul... You will also find that it is no great tragedy if your love is not reciprocated. You are not doing it to be loved back. Its value is to inspire you.”

Ifs Way Want Humans Soul Values Love Is Inspire Materials Benefits Tragedy Inspired Attraction Celebrate Admiration Being Human Loving Someone Material Things Worthlessness Great Tragedy

Author:Adrian Tan

“My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.”

Want Mind Children Made Materials My Children Muscles Iron Nerves Steel Thunderbolts

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

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