We are used to female writers who use their private lives as unmitigated material being somewhat hormonal this somehow 'excuses' what might be seen as a highly unfeminine ability to turn their personal upsets into money.
People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you aren't here to enjoy them what good do they do?
Spirituality does two things for you. One you are forced to become more selfless two you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.
Miami Beach - that's where I grew up in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor who was my roommate - my grandparents my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
I don't think feminism as I understand the definition implies the rejection of maternal values nurturing children caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world as pastors teach but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example medical and materials research and satellite communications.
The technology used to detect if vehicles are carrying radioactive material is so sensitive it can tell if a person recently received radiation as part of a medical procedure.
I think there are some people in life who are not marriage material and Chris is one of them.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference not only in your own life but in other people's lives.
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater obviously and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words.
Ignorance of what real learning is and a consequent suspicion of it materialism and a consequent intellectual laxity both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
Whatever the medium there is the difficulty challenge fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.
Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
This also turned out to be negative so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him.
Despite our very recent appearance on the planet humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.
Further for once I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.
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.
We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different even when we are in the dark with them.