#material

The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#assurance #bringing #certain #certain level #exchange

Sometimes groups and their material can get overbloated. ↗

— Fred Schneider

#groups #material #sometimes #their

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#century #civilization #contemplate #daring #energy

More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#assumed #both #dominant #faith #gave

When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening. ↗

— David Sedaris

#do you know #how #know #laughing #listening

I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off. ↗

— Ronald Biggs

#buddies #day #end #go #i

First, I'm trying to edit down about 7 hours of material which I made prior to the Cop days and find some way to get it out. This stuff is pretty out there, mostly sonic collages and tape manipulations. ↗

— Jim Coleman

#collages #cop #days #down #edit

I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book. ↗

— Jack Vance

#call #done #far #got #i

When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#clubs #college #comedy #enough #entertainer

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. ↗

— Robert Hall

#biography #composed #composition #concentrated #delightful