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“The foundations of liberty are private property and the rule of law; this system guarantees the fewest possible forms of injustice, produces the greatest material and cultural progress, most effectively stems violence and provides the greatest respect for human rights. According to this concept of liberalism, freedom is a single, unified concept. Political and economic liberties are as inseparable as the two sides of a medal.”

“What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.”

Different Stories Grows Poor Rich Changed Materials South Cancer Landscape Camps South Africa Get Rich Squatters

Author:Athol Fugard

“The 'New Testament', now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood - a material that couldn't have been widely available in Palestine.”

Has Beens Father Jesus Community Materials Good Things Available Woods Testament Palestine New Testament

Author:Terry Pratchett

“There's always someone who's going to interpret my material as racist, but it's not. Racism comes from intent and power. A racist will tell a joke about a group of people only when they're not in the room. I'll talk about a group of people only when they're in the room.”

People Rooms Groups Materials Racism Jokes Racist

Author:Russell Peters

“I do a lot of cultural material that's based on my traveling around the world. I basically just report what I've seen and where I've been.”

World Materials Around The World Reports

Author:Russell Peters

“In order to cooperate in the material worlds as agents of a divine power, the spirits temporarily have a material body. By the work required in their corporeal lives, the spirits improve their intelligence and, by observing God's law, they acquire the merits which will lead them to eternal happiness.”

World Body Law Spirit Order Divine Materials Eternal Real Life Agents Merit Acquire Observing Material World Divine Power Eternal Happiness

Author:Allan Kardec

“If the individual could succeed in discovering through human experience the profound past, he, would more rapidly, reach the conclusion that all the opportunities that complement him in knowledge and health, come from Divine Kindness and, that most of the material resources that are at his disposition and desires proceed from injustice.”

Ifs Humans Past Desire Opportunity Individual Kindness Divine Materials Succeed Resources Profound Injustice Conclusion Discovering Disposition Human Experience Complement

Author:Chico Xavier

“You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.”

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Author:Dick Cavett

“Three features mark the Anglo-American system as different from all others. One is the extent to which our law is formed in litigation. Another feature is the way we conduct these cases: we pit antagonists against each other, to cast up from their struggles the material of decisions. A third- and largest in the public consciousness- is the trial by jury.”

Way Different Law Three Decision Consciousness Cases Struggle Materials Thirds Mark Casts Trials Features Pits Jury Antagonist Trial By Jury

Book:The Law of the Land: The Evolution of Our Legal System

Source: The Law of the Land: The Evolution of Our Legal System

“For women, marriages foreclosed often resulted in an accumulation of booty; for men, these failed projects of implausible optimism were more likely to manifest themselves in material lack. It was hard to resist the metaphorical impression that women got to keep the past itself, whereas men were simply robbed of it.”

Men Hard Past Materials Projects Optimism Impression Manifest Accumulation Metaphorical Booty

Book:The Post-Birthday World

Source: The Post-Birthday World

“Appreciation is not an otherworldly or good treat which we may take or push away as per the minute's impulses, and in either case without material outcomes. Appreciation is the very bread and meat of profound and good wellbeing, separately and all things considered. What was the seed of deterioration that tainted the antiquated's heart world past the purpose of perfect remedy...? What was it however selfishness?”

World Heart May Past Purpose Perfect Cases Minutes Materials All Things Treats Profound Appreciation Seeds Bread Selfishness Impulse Meat Outcomes Remedy Wellbeing Tainted Deterioration

Author:Noel 'Razor' Smith

“What if it should be God's plan to people the world with better and finer material?”

People Ifs World Should Plans Materials What If God's Plan

Book:Our Country

Source: Our Country

“Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . . . Artists have had to become self-conscious aestheticians: continually challenging their means, their materials and methods.”

Kind Mean Art Self Today Artist Challenges Consciousness Materials Conscious Method Instruments Sensibility Self Conscious Modifying

Author:Susan Sontag

“There is nothing in the cosmos, either in the material plane or the spiritual plane which cannot be directly cognized.”

Spiritual Materials Planes Cosmos

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.”

Mean Force Economy Progress Materials Products Development Productions Interpretation Expansion Marxism Progress Of Society

Author:Earl Browder

“Now, all America sits in front of television sets and those television sets exude, I am sorry to say, a considerable amount of radioactive material. It's not huge, you know, but it's enough so that people who have made a habit of watching TV ... get the TV radiation.”

People Knows Made Enough America Fronts Television Materials Tvs Huge Amount Habit Sorry Radiation I Am Sorry Am Sorry Watching Tv

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“I think we have an administration today that is dysfunctional. And if it can't get itself together to organize a serious program for finding nuclear material on its way to the United States, then it ought to be replaced by an administration that can.”

Ifs Thinking Way States Today Together United United States Serious Materials Ought Findings Program Nuclear Administration Replaced Organize

Author:Richard Perle

“Every Holy Mass, heard with devotion, produces in our souls marvelous effects, abundant spiritual and material graces which we, ourselves, do not know...It is easier for the earth to exist without the sun than without the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass!”

Knows Soul Earth Spiritual Sun Grace Heard Sacrifice Effects Produce Materials Easier Holy Mass Devotion Marvelous Holy Mass

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“Dancers can get to see almost everything now. When I used to go into companies to make a piece, the dancers had hardly ever seen my work. Now they can watch it on YouTube. It means they're much faster at picking up material.”

Mean Used Company Watches Pieces Materials Faster Dancer Youtube

Author:Wayne McGregor

“Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.”

Ifs Real Class Materials Essentials Mass Privilege Ruling Real Power Withholding

Author:George Orwell

“Humanity must accept that the food, the raw materials, the energy, the scientific knowledge and so on, belongs to everybody, that it is given by Divine providence for all peoples, the rich nations and what are called the developing nations. No one has the right to corner the goods of the world as is done today, whether that be oil or food or any of the things that we think are so important.”

“Quentin's [Tarantino] thing is "I don't want anybody to get up until they have to. So, because he really wants things to come organically. And he may have specific things like "No, this ... I want you to be here so that when he punches you, it falls. I want that action to happen here." But you feel like it does, all the blocking does come from an organic response to the material.”

Want Feels May Doe Happens Action Fall Materials Response Block Get Up I Want You Quentin Tarantino

Author:Jennifer Jason Leigh

“Obviously invidious and prejudicial stereotypes need to be deconstructed and overcome, but it's not that they can be destroyed. I think that would be an illusion to think that we can somehow get rid of these basic search templates that allow us to sort out our social lives and to sort out the material world as well.”

Thinking World Needs Wells Would Be Social Materials Illusion Overcoming Destroyed Stereotype Social Life Material World

Author:W. J. T. Mitchell

“Distinction between species and specimen is very much like the distinction between images and actual pictures, or, you know, objects that have a definite material identity. The classifications, the categories, the stereotypes, and the images are on one side, and the material pictures, statues, texts, and so forth are on the other.”

Knows Sides Identity Objects Materials Species Distinction Categories Definite Stereotype Statues Classification

Author:W. J. T. Mitchell

“I don't care for remakes. There's soooo much undiscovered material out there; old and new. I want to be original.”

Want Care Materials Originals Don't Care I Don't Care Remakes Old And New

Author:Tishuan Scott

“I wouldn't want to put myself up for something that I didn't think I could do a good job on. I wouldn't to direct material I didn't feel I could serve, but I don't have anything against doing bigger pictures.”

Thinking Want Feels Jobs Materials Direct Bigger Good Job Bigger Picture

Author:Kurt Voss

“I'm conscious of the fact that a lot of Ekoplekz material got released in quick succession. It was difficult for people to keep up. The thing is, once you hand over the material to the label you have no control over when something comes out - at one point I had whole LPs that were overlapping.”

People Whole Facts Hands Difficult Materials Conscious Labels Succession Overlapping

Author:Ekoplekz

“A lot of the early songs I wrote were about the experience of going to London and meeting rent boys and transvestites and drag queens. A lot of my early material is that: the wide-eyed adventures of a middle-class boy.”

Song Class Boys Middle Adventure Materials Meetings Wide London Queens Middle Class Drag Drag Queen Transvestites

Author:Marc Almond

“I never, ever update Mark Twain. I don't modernize it. I let the audience update the material. When I go out on stage, I'm trying to make the audience believe they're looking at this guy who died 104 years ago and listening to him and saying to themselves, "Jesus, he could be talking about today." And that's the point.”

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Author:Hal Holbrook

“I don't like building, I'm not a carpenter, I don't like constructions particularly and things like that, but placements and the kinds of psychological weight that different materials have is pretty interesting to me.”

Kind Different Interesting Building Materials Weight Psychological Construction Carpenter Placement

Author:Julian Schnabel

“I'm not mannerist. I don't think I'm interested in mannerism. If I ever use it in a way, or if manner is like some kind of product of certain sorts of usage of different kinds of materials, then it's about involution or turning in on that.”

Ifs Thinking Way Kind Different Use Certain Materials Products Different Kinds Usage Mannerisms

Author:Julian Schnabel

“I don't have to change anything. I think that's the secret to comedy. You want to be universal and appeal to everyone. You want to put yourself in a position that no matter what you're talking about, everyone can relate to it and understand it, because it's an experience that everyone can go through. That's what I pattern my writing material and jokes after. I'm trying to maintain a level of realness that my fans can appreciate.”

Thinking Want Writing Trying Matter Levels Secret Talking Comedy Fans Position Materials Jokes Appreciate Universal No Matter What Patterns Relate Appeals Realness

Author:Kevin Hart

“We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack. In other words, what happens for most of us is that we are tempted and we are taught, we are trained as it were, to meet limited circumstances with limited thought.”

Happens Spiritual Situation Taught Materials Circumstances Tempted Compensation Invoke

Author:Marianne Williamson

“As long as you identify with the universe - which is perfect and can correct material conditions to bring them back into alignment with that Divine perfection - as long as that is where your mind is aligned, it's as though there were two parallel universes. You decide with every thought you think which one you're going to inhabit. Two parallel universes of experience, as it were.”

Thinking Mind Long Two Universe Perfect Conditions Divine Materials Perfection Parallels Alignment Parallel Universe

Author:Marianne Williamson

“I never troll for material. It simply presents itself, and is always unmistakable. This is why I want to roll my eyes when people interrupt themselves in the middle of some story they're telling me to say, "You know you can't write about this."”

People Knows Want Writing Stories Eye Middle Materials Troll

Author:Dani Shapiro

“Well, the difference in working with the Supremes and the other girl groups like Martha and the Vandellas, and the Marvelettes, you let the material dictate to you, uh, really, how you worked with the group, and with the talent, and the personalities. All of these things was instrumental in having all of the groups, uh, retain their own identity. Uh, and, and the material had a lot to do with it, you know.”

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Author:Cholly Atkins

“At one point I felt a tension between objects, their real, physical lives, and the idea of meaning: the physical, material reality of a book, and the totally intangible experience of reading it.”

Book Ideas Real Reality Reading Felt Objects Materials Tension Intangible

Author:Sergio Chejfec

“When someone says something dunderheaded to me about the material, it's usually a big neon sign revealing their own damage or ignorance, so my compassion kicks in.”

Bigs Compassion Ignorance Materials Damage Kicks Revealing Neon Neon Sign

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“As far as being territorial about one's own life, that's a mistake for ANY writer. All writers everywhere, in every genre, are drawing from their life and the lives of those around them for "material." Memoirs just make transparent and even amplify that activity.”

Mistake Materials Activity Drawing Memoir Genre Transparent Amplify Territorial

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“I've noticed over the past years of my writerly life that women writers in particular are discouraged in cleverly disguised forms from including the intellectual in their creative material way more than you would believe.”

Way Years Believe Past Form Creative Particular Materials Intellectual Including Discouraged Over The Past

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“The more subtle thing is more speculative. The world is well past its long-term carrying capacity for human beings living a European, much less an American, lifestyle predicated on planned obsolescence. International economic growth is largely a matter of accelerated movement of materials from mines and forests to the dump. Instead of saving and buying decent furniture we can pass on to our children, we charge our credit cards for shaped heaps of sawdust and glue that fall apart in less than three or four years.”

“Our goal is to turn solar electric technologies into a commodity business like computer chips, and make them ubiquitous in the built environment. I'd couple this with a huge commitment to fundamental research in nanostructure to goose the next generation of more efficient, cheaper, dematerialized cells. And if I'm truly czar, I'd emphasize silicon technologies, as that approach is the one least likely to encounter material constraints in supplying an explosive global demand.”

“"Biblical theology" refers to something more precise than theology that is faithful to the Bible. It might be helpful to draw a contrast: at the risk of oversimplification, systematic theology tends to organize theology topically and with an eye cast on its contemporary relevance, while biblical theology tends to organize the same biblical material so that it is easier to see the distinctive contribution of each biblical book and human author, and to trace the trajectories of themes across the Bible so we see how the books of the Bible hold together.”

“We've gotten better at shooting down routine material or stuff we feel like we've done better in the past. Getting different people in the band for periods also keeps it from going stale.”

People Feels Different Done Past Stuff Materials Periods Band Shooting Routine Different Peoples Stale

Author:Bent Saether

“We live in a material world, not a dramatic one.”

World Materials Dramatic Material World

Author:Richard Flanagan

“Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?”

Whole Together Careers Materials Objectives

Author:Billy Joel

“"Pursuit of happiness" implies that we're running after happiness and happiness is running away from us. It also implies that happiness is somewhere out there, in material goods, which we have to pursue, whereas I believe that it is an illusion happiness is not out there, it is within us.”

Believe Running I Believe Materials Illusion Pursuit Pursue Goods Running Away Pursuit Of Happiness Somewhere Out There

Author:Satish Kumar

“In spite of nuclear weapons, large numbers of American citizens feel totally insecure. And in spite of so much wealth, industry and technology, many Americans are living under deprivation and anxiety. So happiness is not in accumulation of material goods, it's in sharing and caring.”

“Publishers have in-house editors, but I hire my own before I submit the work to publishers. They appreciate it and I feel more confident about the material.”

Feels House My Own Materials Appreciate Editors Submit Publishers

Author:Rigoberto Gonzalez

“We're constantly pushing these materials and processes to the extreme to see what will happen. It's an insight into things that you don't normally see.”

Happens Process Materials Extremes Insight Pushing

Author:Jamie Hyneman

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