Materials Quotes - Page 40

• Your little army, derided for its want of arms, derided for its lack of all the essential material of war, has met the grand army of the enemy, routed it at every point, and now it flies, inglorious in retreat before our victorious columns. We have taught them a lesson in their invasion of the sacred soil of Virginia.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Army, Virginia

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• No matter what you might be going through right now, God has blessed you far more than you probably imagine-not just with material goods, but with family, with freedom and with the ability to enjoy His gifts.

  Billy Graham

  Blessed, Thankfulness, Might

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• He was a long, stripy policeman, who flowed out of his uniform at odd spots, as if Nature, setting out to make a constable, had had a good deal of material left over which she had not liked to throw away but hardly seemed able to fit into the general scheme.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Humorous, Long, Able

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• The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.

  Paul Sweezy

  Confidence, Meaningful, Integrity

  "The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas". Book by Robert W. McChesney, May 1, 2008.

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• The reality of man is his thought, not his material body. The thought force and the animal force are partners. Although man is part of the animal creation, he possesses a power of thought superior to all other created beings.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Animal, Reality, Men

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• Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.

  Alvar Aalto

  Mean, Immature, Doe

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• To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be naturally recycled for reuse - to near zero. Productive activities must be organized as closed systems. Minerals and other nonbiodegradable resources, once taken from the ground, must become a part of society's permanent capital stock and be recycled in perpetuity. Organic materials may be disposed into the natural ecosystems, but only in ways that assure that they are absorbed back into the natural production system.

  David Korten

  Zero, Taken, Ecosystems

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• Recycling is more expensive for communities than it needs to be, partly because traditional recycling tries to force materials into more lifetimes than they are designed for - a complicated and messy conversion, and one that itself expends energy and resources. Very few objects of modern consumption were designed with recycling in mind. If the process is truly to save money and materials, products must be designed from the very beginning to be recycled or even "upcycled" - a term we use to describe the return to industrial systems of materials with improved, rather than degraded, quality.

  William McDonough

  Community, Mind, Trying

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• For many years there have been treatments available which are successful and usually NOT harmful for diseases, such as AIDS, cancer, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, organ regeneration and other diseases. One by one these treatments and their creators or proponents have been targeted by the FDA, which I call the "office of orthodoxy enforcement," illegally using just powers derived from the consent of governed. These forms of tyranny are always accompanied by multi agency intrusions or harassment, confiscation of private medical files, censorship of written materials and threats or prosecution.

  Charles C. Pixley

  Cancer, Successful, Fda

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• And the rigidity of the material with which we have to compose, is a more formidable opponent than Lasker or Capablanca. Because these lifeless opponents do not have any moments of human weakness!

  Henri Weenink

  Opponents, Chess, Weakness

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• Often you will find the opposite situation. The author seems to have interesting ideas, but he is not able to illustrate them with decent examples. If a grandmaster is commenting on one of his own games, then there is usually not any problem: his general thoughts are closely tied up with what is happening on the board. But as soon as he starts writing an article or book on a different theme the difficulties begin, as he may not have suitable material to hand.

  Mark Dvoretsky

  Book, Writing, Ideas

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• It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design.

  Antony Flew

  Powerful, Dna, Years

  Gary R. Habermas, Antony Flew, David J. Baggett (2009). “Did the Resurrection Happen?: A Conversation with Gary Habermas and Antony Flew”, p.75, InterVarsity Press

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• Successful living does not mean accumulating material things, it means inner peace of mind; it means that gift of being able to adjust oneself to everyone else; it also means that all your needs for daily living will be taken care of by God.

  Albert E Cliffe

  Life, Taken, Mean

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• Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a future to safeguard.

  Elihu Root

  May, Moral, Disarmament

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• In striving for the best, in losing onself in others, one is lifted above the common material furniture of life, above the gaudy trappings and encumbering paraphenalia... into the realm of peace which passeth understanding.

  Olympia Brown

  Understanding, Furniture, Losing

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• Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the subject of health.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Health, Mind, Bears

  Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures 120:15 (1875)

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• The provision of basic material needs is not sufficient to make minority groups and indigenous peoples feel they are truly part of the greater national entity. For that they have to be confident that they too have an active role to play in shaping the destiny of the state that demands their allegiance.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Destiny, Play, Groups

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• Those who wait for God are pilgrim souls that have no tie that will hold them when the definite command is issued; no prejudices that will paralyze their effort when in some strange coming of the light they are commanded to take a pathway entirely different to that which was theirs before; having no interests either temporal or eternal, either material or mental or spiritual, that will conflict with the will of God when that will is made known.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Spiritual, Light, Ties

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• The power of material things, to bestow happiness, to bring joy into the life is tremendously exaggerated. But The right mental attitude for example gratitude that things are not worse, the trained mind the right habits of thought - lifeskills, will bring to us the best there is in the universe.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Gratitude, Attitude, Joy

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• Demon mean knowledge in Greek, especially about the material world. Science means knowledge in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further

  Carl Sagan

  Latin, Mean, Science

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• Animal experiments occupy a central place in the material and spiritual edifice of our whole civilization. We are speaking here of one of those foundation stones whose removal could cause the whole house to collapse.

  Rudolf Bahro

  Spiritual, Animal, Civilization

  Rudolf Bahro (1986). “Building the Green movement”, Library Company of Philadelphia

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• Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Writing, Color

  Joshua Reynolds (1842). “The discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Illustr. by explanatory notes & plates by John Burnet”, p.28

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• An artist should use freely whatever materials he pleases.

  Shozaburo Watanabe

  Art, Use, Should

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• That's a nice tie... Do you have any knickers in that material?

  Prince Philip

  Nice, Ties, Classic

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• The true end of Art is not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living motion.

  George Inness

  Art, Ends, Fixed

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