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• Today I will gratefully receive all the gifts that life has to offer me. I will receive the gifts of sunlight and the sound of birds singing and spring showers. I will also be open to receiving from others, whether it is in the form of a material gift, a compliment or a prayer.

  Deepak Chopra

  Prayer, Spring, Bird

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• Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment. Therefore these states are never achieved by those who covet them; rather, they are the reward of the virtuous.

  Laozi

  Self, Achievement, Greed

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• There must appear a spiritual and moral leadership rising above economic and political situations. Governments in both their domestic and foreign policies appeal for popular support by promises of material gain. We cannot make peace by mere appeal to greed. We must give the peoples of the world something to live for as well as something to live on.

  John Haynes Holmes

  Leadership, Spiritual, Government

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• Many people correctly make the point that our only hope is to turn to God. For example, Charles Lindbergh, who said that in his young manhood he thought "science was more important than either man or God," and that "without a highly developed science modern man lacks the power to survive," . . . went to Germany after the war to see what Allied bombing had done to the Germans, who had been leaders in science. There, he says, "I learned that if his civilization is to continue, modern man must direct the material power of his science by the spiritual truths of his God."

  Marion G. Romney

  Spiritual, War, Learning

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• My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.

  Balthazar Getty

  Independent, Different, Theory

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• What I strive most to achieve in art is to make you forget the material. The sculptor must... communicate whatever struck his sensibility, so that a person beholding his work may experience in its entirety the emotion felt by the artist while he observed nature.

  Medardo Rosso

  Art, May, Emotion

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• The fight against Germany has now been waged for months by every Jewish community, on every conference, in all labor unions and by every single Jew in the world. There are reasons for the assumption that our share in this fight is of general importance. We shall start a spiritual and material war of the whole world against Germany. Germany is striving to become once again a great nation, and to recover her lost territories as well as her colonies. But our Jewish interests call for the complete destruction of Germany.

  Ze'ev Jabotinsky

  Spiritual, War, Fighting

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• In today's America He (Jesus) has moved from the central figure of world history to source material for late-night comics and pundits who would not dare treat other religious leaders with such disrespect.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• The purpose of fasting is to loosen to some degree the ties which bind us to the world of material things and our surroundings as a whole, in order that we may concentrate all our spiritual powers upon the unseen and eternal things.

  Ole Hallesby

  Spiritual, Order, Ties

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Needs, Faults, Materialism

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch-22: A Memoir”, p.251, Hachette UK

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• A painting, you know, it's all dirty material. But it's about transformation. Taking that earth, that heavy earthen kind of thing, turning it into air and light.

  Brice Marden

  Dirty, Light, Air

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• A nation lives forever through its concepts, honor, and culture. It is for these reasons that the rulers of nations must judge and act not only on the basis of physical and material interests of the nation but on the basis of the nation's historical honor, of the nation's eternal interests. Thus: not bread at all costs, but honor at all costs.

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

  Judging, Forever, Historical

  "For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard". Book by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, 1936.

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• More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Spiritual, Men, White Man

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2003). “The Soul of the Indian”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Generations, Machines, Wealth

  Jeremy Rifkin (2011). “The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World”, p.269, Macmillan

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• We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.

  John Naisbitt

  Spiritual, Technology, Race

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• 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.

  R. D. Laing

  Spiritual, Self, Mad

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

  Patti Smith

  Beautiful, Book, Acceptance

  "National Book Award for Patti Smith". National Book Award Acceptance speech, www.nytimes.com. November 17, 2010.

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• You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Perspective, Fields

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 09, 2013

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• There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even though I indeed had some world-class professors myself when I went through the curriculum, I rarely saw such gnosic or concretist/poetic passion among them. I am not speaking of broad histrionics or melodramatic delivery, but rather a moral investment of concern, of loving delight and pathos in exposing one's consciousness to the full horrific and magnificent implications of the materials.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophical, Passion, Issues

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• Some say that you should not want money at all because the desire for money is materialistic and not Spiritual. But we want you to remember that you are here in this very physical world where Spirit has materialized. You cannot separate yourself from the aspect of yourself that is Spiritual, and while you are here in these bodies you cannot separate yourselves from that which is physical or material. All of the magnificent things of a physical nature that are surrounding you are Spiritual in nature.

  Esther Hicks

  Spiritual, Desire, World

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2010). “Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness: Easyread Large Edition”, p.145, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It has never happened in history that a nation that has won a war has been held accountable for atrocities committed in preparing for and waging that war. We intend to make this one different. What took place was the use of technological material to destroy a defenseless country. From 125,000 to 300,000 people were killed... We recognize our role in history is to bring the transgressors to justice.

  Ramsey Clark

  Country, War, Atrocities Committed

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• Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from hand to hand, and uses it to embody any caprice of thought that is uppermost in his mind. The remotest spaces of nature are visited, and the farthest sundered things are brought together, by subtle spiritual connection. We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Spiritual, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.238, Penguin

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• Sometimes it is really hard to sit in the single and go for a row. I think this is really normal. I, like probably a lot of people, burn out every once in a while. What I have learned from my own experience is that there are two reasons for it to happen. It is that I am either physically tired or mentally tired. If either of these are the case, the wisest decision is to blow off practice. Blowing off practice is healthy. I didn't understand that until I was so burnt out that I wanted to make scrap material out of my single and my oars.

  Xeno Muller

  Tired, Blow, Thinking

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• Although logging workouts seems to be a very simple action, it is often forgotten. Once several days go by, it is hard to remember what was done on a particular day. After working out for several months, you will feel an unbelievable sense of achievement when flipping through the pages of the log book. You should also notice a sign of improvement. 'Material proof' can be great motivation and will encourage you to keep on going.

  Xeno Muller

  Workout, Motivation, Book

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• This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  World, Limits, Pessimism

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.273, Courier Corporation

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