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The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.
Mitch Daniels

Future, Failure, American

Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.
Morihei Ueshiba

Love, Best, Society

I'm sure there's going to be some material from This Is Not Going To Be Pretty. I usually use that song to just introduce myself to the audience, although the patter in between the song is always different.
Harvey Fierstein

Different, Pretty, Between

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
Thomas Aquinas

Others, Common, Share

The word of man is the most durable of all material.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Music, Great, Food

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
Robert Green Ingersoll

God, Made, Poor

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
E. M. Forster

Art, Why, Opinion

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
Gore Vidal

Top, Television, Hungry

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.
Deepak Chopra

Time, Living, Here

Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
Andre Maurois

Hand, Style, Hallmark

If you see me on Friday, you'll see different material on Saturday night.
Kathy Griffin

Night, Different, Friday

When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.
Steve Martin

Everything, Serious, Comedy

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
Theodor Adorno

Good, Power, Himself

The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.
Arthur Henderson

Peace, Powerful, Moral

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
Joseph Joubert

Spiritual, Enigma

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
Jose Saramago

Positive, Doubt, Until

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.
James Cash Penney

Great, Men, Small

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

Nothing, Space, Forces

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
Bernard Williams

Human, Made, Spirit

Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.
Desmond Tutu

Poor, Problems, Sea

I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.
Lucinda Williams

Strength, Through, Trying

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.
David Bowie

Wish, Song, Expression

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.
Jerry Saltz

History, Culture, Open

I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Bad, Matter

During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we've come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love.
Julia Roberts

Love, Beauty, Simple

It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.
Alanis Morissette

Success, Music, Reason

I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do.
Paul Kane

Same, Film, Public

A comedy club is a place where you work out material, you're trying material.
Chris Rock

Work, Trying, Place

Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.
Jeff Bridges

Enjoy, Sense, Often

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