#material

What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#beginning #capacity #constantly #decreases #enjoyment

Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease. ↗

— Karel Capek

#destroy #else #everything #exterminate #factories

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered. ↗

— John Updike

#delivered #inspiration #material #packet

A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of commercial exchange. These currents are untraceable. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#articles #carried #commercial #currents #exchange

I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material. ↗

— Kate Clinton

#cd #collection #comedy #consider #doing

The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#capable #church #diverse #divine #her

There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable. ↗

— Robin Day

#conserving #designers #durable #energy #fair

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#immortality #man #material #nothing #reached

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. ↗

— Joan Didion

#because #difficult #europeans #guilty #materialistic

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

#above #also #analysis #based #collect