#material

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#anything #cannot #great #many #materialistic

The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument. ↗

— Suzi Quatro

#brought #concentrated #cradle #eventually #i

Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses. ↗

— Karl Radek

#comprehensible #general #life #makes #masses

You begin with the possibilities of the material. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#begin #material #possibilities #you

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them. ↗

— Rene Redzepi

#get #go #learn #let go #materials

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race. ↗

— Branch Rickey

#game #greatest #history #material #our

Already, in the last few decades, you have realized the utter futility of of encumbering yourselves with superfluous possessions that have no useful virtue, but which, for various sentimental reasons, you continue to hoard, thus lessening your life's efficiency by using for it time and attention that should have been applied to the practical work of life's accomplishments. (The Miracle of the Lily - 1928) ↗

— Clare Winger Harris

#material-possessions #materialism #possessions #uselessness #wasted-time

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#bought #by the time #gets #man #material

I think Chappelle set the bar when he came out with his show. To be as great as him or greater you have to push it a little further - as long as there's substance in terms of the material. ↗

— Aries Spears

#came #further #great #greater #him

I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

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