Quotes with material

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  • Betty Friedan The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of her
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Umberto Eco The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Lewis Mumford The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The word of man is the most durable of all material.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II There is a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied by material things alone - by better cars on longer credit terms.
    Speech DNC 17-08-1956
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Douglas Jerrold There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Ann Beattie There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Betty Friedan There needs to be bolder thinking,... on how to measure the quality of life of men and women in the work force. Currently, success is measured by material advancements. We need to readjust the definition of success to account for time outside of work and satisfaction of life, not just the dollars-and-cents bottom line.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Alan Dundes They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Ann Macbeth They will open up to what I would call corporate broadcastings where the non-commercial material will have air time. There's no possibility of that here right now, none.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Claude M. Bristol Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
    Claude M. Bristol
    American writer
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bill Keller Twitter and Facebook are brilliant tools, the journalistic uses of which are still being plumbed. They are great for disseminating interesting material. They are useful for gathering information, including from places that are inaccessible.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
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  • Billy Joel Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Colombian writer (1927 - 2014)
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  • Rebecca West We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Barry Schuler We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.
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  • Ronald Laing We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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