Stuff Quotes

• Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Religious, Atheist, People

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• Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff.

  George Carlin

  Philosophy, Stupid People, Balance

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

  Andy Warhol

  Average, People, Being Different

  Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett (2009). “The Andy Warhol Diaries”, p.336, Hachette UK

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  Stop watering things that were never meant to grow in your life. Water what works, what's good, what's right. Stop playing around with those dead bones and stuff you can't fix, its over...leave it alone! You're coming into a season of greatness. If you water what's alive and divine, you will see harvest like you've never seen before. Stop wasting water on dead issues, dead relationships, dead people, a dead past. No matter how much you water concrete, you can't grow a garden.

  T. D. Jakes

  Garden, Past, Greatness

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• When people come to my act any time after Thanksgiving, I usually say, You shouldn't be here. You should be shopping. Our economy depends on you! You should be out there buying stuff.'

  Lewis Black

  Shopping, People, Buying

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• We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Divorce, Acceptance

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• It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

  Carl Sagan

  Death, Witty, Atheist

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• Fashion is such stuff as dreams are made on.

  Anna Dello Russo

  Dream, Fashion, Made

  "Fashion Statement: Why Anna Dello Russo rocks" by Kate Carter, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2010.

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• True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Jobs, Freedom, People

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Cosmos, Stardust

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• The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.

  Carl Sagan

  Ocean, Cosmos, Ankles

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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• If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Inspirational, Business, Young Entrepreneurs

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• Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1746

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• Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Dream, Sleep

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 4, sc. 1, l. 148

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• We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

  Carl Sagan

  Knowledge, Science, Cosmos

  Carl Sagan, Tom Head (2006). “Conversations with Carl Sagan”, p.57, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Einstein: A Centenary Volume". Book by A.P. French, p. 32, 1980.

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• You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Motivational, Kindness

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 11, 2017

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• We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Good Night, Dream

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 4, sc. 1, l. 148

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• The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what we know. Recently, we've waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return, and we can, because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Ocean, Long

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Documentary (1990 Update). Episode 1: "The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean", 1990.

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• Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of.

  H. G. Wells

  Dream, Religion, Made

  HG Wells, Rudy Rucker, Colin Wilson (2013). “The Last Books of H.G. Wells: The Happy Turning: A Dream of Life & Mind at the End of its Tether”, p.5, Monkfish Book Publishing

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• Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

  Clarence Day

  Inspiring, Beauty, Knowledge

  Clarence Day (1921). “The Crow's Nest”

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• Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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• Never say never in this game because crazy stuff can happen.

  Mark Buehrle

  Baseball, Crazy, Games

  "Perfection: Buehrle tosses perfect game for ChiSox" by Andrew Seligman, www.foxnews.com. July 24, 2009.

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