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An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
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Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.
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'The Butler' has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White House butler Gene Allen, except for the fact that the main character of the film and Allen were both black butlers in the White House.
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'Words, Words, Words' was very much its title. It's just words, words, words and trying to show that I can pack as much material into an hour as I possibly could word count-wise.
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...controls on behavior shift from the intermediate levels of human experience (social, emotional and religious) to the lower (military and political) or to the upper (ideological). They become the externalized controls of a mature society: weapons, bureaucracies, material rewards, or ideology.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don't feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.
The Meaning Of Life -
A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
Atonement (2001) -
Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.
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All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification.
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Another aspect of the nineteenth century propaganda system is the increasing emphasis upon material desires.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.
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Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena.... But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.
On War (1832) -
Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.
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As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors.
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As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.
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But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material.
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Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.
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Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.
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