Materials Quotes - Page 39

• Once freedom is equated with a certain material standard of living, confiscation becomes the path to liberation.

  James Bovard

  Path, Standards, Certain

  James Bovard (2015). “Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen”, p.76, Macmillan

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• I will be satisfied to the extent that I see everything I have as a gift from God. Here is the truth: Everything you have – your money, talent, friendships, marriage, children, material possessions, health, home, bike, car, even the country you live in – is a gift from God that He had chosen out of His generous nature to give you.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Country, Children, Home

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2010). “Be Satisfied (Ecclesiastes): Looking for the Answer to the Meaning of Life”, p.7, David C Cook

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• I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and rubbish heaps should not serve well as materials for paintings; they suited the purpose just as well as factory-made paints It is possible to cry out using bits of old rubbish, and that's what I did, gluing and nailing them together.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Together, Buttons, Junk

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• When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for in addition to playing off color against color, line against line, form against form, etc., I play off material against material, for example, wood against sackcloth.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Taken, Color, Play

  "Abstract Art". Book by Anna Moszynska, p. 68-69, 1990.

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• Did Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews furnish structural material for Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon? It has been pointed out in these pages that there are many things in the former book that might well have suggested many major things in the other.Not a few things merely, one or two, or half dozen, but many; and it is this fact of many things of similarity and the cumulative force of them that makes them so serious a menace to Joseph Smith's story of the Book of Mormon's origin

  B. H. Roberts

  Book, Two, Views

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• The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes in the structure and future functioning of the nervous system. This leaves us with a clear physiological fact…moment by moment we choose and sculpt how our ever-changing minds will work. We choose who we will be in the next moment in a very real sense, and these choices are left embossed in physical form in our material selves.

  Michael Merzenich

  Real, Self, Choices

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• I'm probably not long-term-relationship material for now.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Long, Term, Long Term Relationship

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• Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating what he has learned with his own experiences, finally molds something distinctly personnel.

  Romare Bearden

  Artist, Vision, Mold

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• I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.

  Terri Windling

  Respect, Hate, Hats

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• The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Meditation, Mindfulness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.21, editionNEXT.com

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• We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life. . . . We must first purify our atmosphere and completely transform the milieu in which we live; for it corrupts our instinct and our will, and constricts our heart and our intelligence

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Heart, Atmosphere, Nihilism

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• Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and try to reproduce the material. This time I realized that carrying around old information, trying to get everything in, and still be in the moment just doesn't work.

  Meredith Monk

  Past, Trying, Pieces

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• I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into.

  Tobias Wolff

  Work, Editors, People

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• Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

  Hervey Allen

  Legends, Facts

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• No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence.

  Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach

  War, People, Saving

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• There is a spiritual capacity in carbon as there is a carbon component functioning in our highest spiritual experience. If some scientists consider that all this is merely a material process, then what they call matter, I call mind, soul, spirit, or consciousness. Possibly it is a question of terminology, since scientists too on occasion use terms that express awe and mystery. Most often, perhaps, they use the expression that some of the natural forms they encounter seem to be "telling them something."

  Thomas Berry

  Spiritual, Expression, Soul

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.25, Crown

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• The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body.

  Khalil Gibran

  Fear, Wine, Soul

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can bring fresh new material into the field is if people go out and buy it.

  Terri Windling

  Reading, People, Trying

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• The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.

  Laozi

  Teacher, Learning, Men

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• I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Good Life, Mean, Actors

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• News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

  Rose Macaulay

  Food, Cooking, Culture

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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• Life, on this Earth may be likened to a great Kaleidoscope before which the scenes and facts and material substances are ever shifting and changing and all any man can do is to take these facts and substances and re-arrange them in new combinations.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Substance, Earth

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.207, Courier Corporation

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• CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses."

  Ambrose Bierce

  Strong, Adversity, Animal

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.38, 谷月社

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• I don't cringe when I think of doing old material. A lot of the people have been with me through the years.

  Steve Forbert

  Thinking, Years, People

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• Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Loss, People, Burning

  "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression" by the United States Department of State, Vol. 2, (p. 754), 1946.

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