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«All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.»
«Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.»
«EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.»
«Human beings are of such nature that they should have not only material facilities but spiritual sustenance as well. Without spiritual sustenance, it is difficult to get and maintain peace of mind.»
«If there is love, there is hope to have real families, real brotherhood, real equanimity, real peace. If the love within your mind is lost, if you continue to see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education you have, no matter how much material progress is made, only suffering and confusion will ensue.»
«Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
blood,
Blood and,
body,
boned,
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flesh,
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Flesh and Blood,
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hammered,
hammering,
hammers,
hammer in,
instead,
in style,
material,
material body,
My Style,
off,
our own,
painters,
purely,
sculptors,
style,
styled,
temple,
Temple in,
The God,
worships
«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.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
any,
called,
call at,
call out,
call up,
content,
contenting,
For the,
for the moment,
in and of itself,
Itself,
material,
merely,
moment,
not for,
so-called,
spirit,
spirited,
spiriting,
spirit up,
symbol,
The Calling,
thing,
thing in itself,
want
«Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
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Orator,
Statesman)
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Keywords:
cost,
cram,
crammed,
cramming,
crams,
fairly,
glut,
glutted,
in the raw,
market,
material,
nations,
phantoms,
raw,
raw material,
raw materials,
The God,
The Phantom,
The Phantom of
«A person might be an expert in any field of knowledge or a master of many material skills and accomplishments. But without inner cleanliness his brain is a desert waste.»
«If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another»
Author: Winston Churchill
(
Author,
Orator,
Prime Minister)
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Keywords:
behave,
helpful,
human race,
indefinite,
material,
peaceful,
period,
prolonged,
prosperity,
wishes