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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
Materialism
Henri Frederic Amiel

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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
Music
Christian Nevell Bovee

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I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
Acting and Actors
Lord Byron

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The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
Ideals and Idealism
Malcolm De Chazal

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.
Arts and Artists
T. S. Eliot

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Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.
Materialism
Doug Horton

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Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials.
Heroes and Heroism
Gerald W. Johnson

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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
Spirit and Spirituality
Joseph Joubert

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This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
Wealth
John F. Kennedy

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Style [Is] the hallmark of a temperament stamped on the material in hand.
Style
Andre Maurois

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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
Sex
Malcolm Muggeridge

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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
Quality
Ovid

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Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combination.
Deeds and Good Deeds
Sir Joshua Reynolds

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The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.
Imagination
Mary Caroline Richards

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The word of man is the most durable of all material.
Language
Arthur Schopenhauer

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The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.
Mediocrity
Henry David Thoreau

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Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
Human Spirit
Bern Williams

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Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.
Property
Philip Wylie

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun