#material

Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#compensation #dynamic #element #important #material

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#airline #belief #cash #comforting #control

The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#possessions #readers #reading #things #life

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. ↗

— Cecil Rhodes

#available #cheap #colonies #dumping #easily

Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully. ↗

— Menachem Mendel Schneerson

#everyday #living #material #material world #meaningfully

What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space. ↗

— Erwin Schrodinger

#forces #material #nothing #observe #shapes

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#because #contains #does #environment #fit

All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room. ↗

— Martin Short

#get #improvisation #material #much #possible

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#former #likely #materials #nuclear #seeking

The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#directly #fluctuate #labour #materials #prices