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Material things are delightful, but they're not important.
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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.
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Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.
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Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.
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My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.
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Nature is material, but not materialistic; it issues in life, and breeds all sorts of warm passions and idle beauties.
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.
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Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combination.
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Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.
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On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism.
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One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.
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One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.
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One of the things that's important for anybody adapting source material that is primarily a male buddy picture is to find ways to latch on to strong female characters in the piece and bring them to the forefront and celebrate their point of view alongside the men; otherwise, it becomes a sausage party, and it's a singular point of view.
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Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.
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Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
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Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.
Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. VI, The Question of Price Stability,
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