The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.
Lao tzu
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
Gore Vidal
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
William S. Burroughs
Recent volatility in raw material prices, however, makes first quarter forecasting difficult.
William Joyce
The photons are smaller than the distance between atoms in the material.
Brian Dennis
Especially the bags in the same color or in the same style of the clothes, sometimes with the same material.
Donatella Girombelli
Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.
Philip Wylie
One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.
Emily Dickinson
If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
Robert Quillen
Those strategic advances, however, are being made in the context of a difficult operating environment marked by dramatic raw material cost increases that have significantly depressed near- term gross margins.
Patrick Wang
Wood is a very important material.
Claes Thorson
Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
Nikolai Berdyaev
Explosive material plus radioactive material equals dirty bomb.
Graham Allison
If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.
James Mcbride
It's really wonderful to be able to put your whole self into something. As a band, creating new material is really a group effort; there is a certain lack of control one has as an artist. Now, I am able to take my experiences from the band and from life to make an album that is completely me, inside and out.
Leigh Nash
Anything that makes your attempt to buy an asset more risky can have a material effect on the amount of investment we get. These days, we'd be lucky if we get lots of foreign direct investment. We should not restrict it. We should make it easier.
Nouriel Roubini
This is material which is extremely offensive to the vast majority of people, ... The fact that it is available over the Internet should in no way legitimize it.
Paul Goggins
It digests very well. In fact, it helps if there's other material to be more digestible.
Joe Roetheli
The district then could say 'No' if it reviewed the material and it determined they (the coloring books) were not appropriate.
Linda Flashinski
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
Imelda Marcos
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
Douglas William Jerrold
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
We strip them down to bare bones and add the armor material and the protected glass and then put them back together. We put them together so that you can't tell that they're armored at first glance.
Frank Skinner
We are going to collect all the material which was produced from '45 onward, everything, every piece of it. No one has done it. We know that the filmed materials ... are very, very important and are becoming more important.
Avner Shalev
We knew there was no one perfect material for every structure.
Serge Rabois
I've learned a lot, ... a lot more than I thought I would. Some of the hazardous material information is even useful in the hospital's day-to-day business.
Amanda Miller
He presents the material to students in a way that not only grasps their attention but makes learning about history feasible.
Jennifer Carr
There is something about being the subject of the Queen which distinguishes you in a material way from other people.
Robert G. Menzies
It probably needs about $70,000 worth of material and labor, but we're going to do it for about $10,000.
Chris Megison
Until there's a research question, the material is preserved better in the cave.
Danny Walker
Physician-education material like this is a long time coming.
Caroline Smith Dewaal
It's easy to make a basket. Getting the material is the hard work.
Bill James
There is a very extensive review process for all that material, and management should and does stand behind it.
Dennis Roth
To replace a commodity material, you have to get those economies of scale.
Ann Tucker
Danielle knew about InDigEnt, this company that was looking for material that could be shot quickly and cheaply using digital cameras.
Greg Harrison
It's so difficult to estimate because the market is changing so rapidly. The issues that drive the market aren't domestically controlled. Things happen in China, India and Mexico that influence construction material prices.
Joe Levens
What if it should be God's plan to people the world with better and finer material?
Josiah Strong
My concern is students not taking notes will have a lasting effect on their true mastery of the material.
William Kennedy
There is no question that some of the material in the cache is authentic, It seems that the cache is a mixture of things, some authentic . . . others not.
Christoph Wolff
It's a collaborative process. I work with the governor very closely. She provides ideas, from time to time she actually dictates material. Her communication is very genuine.
Rich Harris
I feel like I'm NFL material. Just because I didn't get invited to the combine, it doesn't discourage me. It just makes me want to work harder and prove myself.
Kyle Mckenzie
Once freedom is equated with a certain material standard of living, confiscation becomes the path to liberation.
James Bovard
We are doubling our capacity for the raw material over the course of the next three years.
Nabeel Gareeb
Many students in California have not been given a fair opportunity to learn the material on the exam.
Arturo Gonzalez
It's not offensive, but it might not quite be church material either. It is just not something you'd see your church perform, but it is something everyone can enjoy.
Brad Marshall
The issue with this one is that it is a size that is material to the company.
Peter Sullivan
With an increasing awareness of safe sex in China, Chinese condom makers should shift its role from an international cheap material supplier to a brand maker.
Jiang Youpan
The changes made to the new version of the Patriot Act are merely cosmetic, and there is new material in it that makes it even worse than it was.
Nancy Murray
We wanted a college-age audience. The material works well for an adult nightclub audience, but it really works well for college-age audiences.
Rebecca Reynolds
We all teach students a massive body of material to get some sort of mastery of it, pass a judgement, and defend it.
William Scott
This is the way that audio-visual material is moving.
Michelle Jeske
There are companies being told they have tens of thousands of material financial controls that have to be attested to, which on its very face is absurd. They can't all be material.
David Chavern
It doesn't burn the material, but takes apart the molecules to form gases. The only thing you can't put in is radioactive material.
Bill Miller
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Willa Sibert Cather
The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time.
Andrew Shue
We either didn't have enough material on his days at Tech or he wasn't a big standout there.
Mark Tennis
It was kind of tough, actually, editing it down and getting what we wanted into this issue. There's a wealth of material out there.
Lawrence Bilotti
We are not going to remove any more material than we have to.
Wayne Schloop
Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.
Czeslaw Milosz
Everything seems to be in that ballpark and up. Material costs, steel, wood, not to mention the gas to transport everything, has gone way up.
Rob Rowlson
You don't wait until material has been lost and then improve security.
Linton Brooks
It's pretty clear who won. We always knew that this free trading of all this copyright material couldn't go on. It just wouldn't work.
Wayne Rosso
We've delivered all the material that was covered under the contract. We installed all the material that was covered under our contract.
Tom Gibbons
If there's anything material and we didn't report it we'd be breaking the law. We don't break the law.
Andrew Fastow
I don't think this is a material change, but anyone following consensus forecasts would have already known Carter's expectations were on the high side.
Dennis Lee
People have stepped forward and covered the cost of the material things we had planned, so now everything goes toward the equipment.
Larry Steach
Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.
Alexander Crummell
It's not an easy fix and I still don't think it's an appropriate sidewalk material. If it was, you'd see it everywhere.
Bill Causey
It got a lot of media attention because of the name and the illicit material, but it did not get attention from the major antivirus companies. We kept the threat level low.
Siobhan Macdermott
This remaking goes on all the time. You have a hard time finding good material, so you remake old movies that have done well.
Matthew Bernstein
Carlos brings a different brand of comedy than most people. He is not afraid to tackle issues. Although some people find his material controversial, he challenges all subjects equally.
Susan Watson
We are dealing with classified material we are about to disclose. The government is just covering its tracks here.
Stephanie Pell
To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.
Santiago Ramón Y Cajal
It's so cute. There's a little brown dress, a tail out the back, it's made of chiffon material and there are ears like a lion.
Janice Lawson
The earnings reflect the severity of price declines. It also looks as though higher material costs also contributed to the drop.
Naoki Fujiwara
Our practice is to not move material that is known to be offensive.
Santiago Lyon
I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.
Frank Carson
This is not a hollow gesture. This is an unprecedented release of industry material.
Scott Williams
The company's projected annual growth rate is about 7% and it demands the increase of the raw material base.
Sergei Bogdanchikov
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
Phillips Brooks
At first we thought there wasn't enough material to make a feature film.
Mary Harron
The Kennedy assassination conspiracy buffs thrive on this type of material.
Gerald Posner
Right now it is very concerning, very dangerous material. But it is also important to note that there is not any particular threat associated (with it).
Tim Manning
I asked myself over and over again what more information could be gained, what and who could be saved by it. The desire to get more material overcame me.
Rafi Eitan
There's a lot of misinformation being said about it. It's not a dangerous material. It's no more dangerous than some fertilizers.
Robert Montgomery
It is difficult to imagine more extreme race hatred than was contained in the material which was seized during this meticulous inquiry.
Peter Davies
In the past, there has been up to 100 yards of material in the basket.
Jan Connelley
This is material which is extremely offensive to the vast majority of people, and it should have no place in our society.
Paul Goggins
My feeling is we are doing something new here. We are building a collaborative effort that will make a great deal of copyrighted material available in a way that's acceptable to the creators. That is novel.
David Mandelbrot
It looks to have been laterally pushed, not scoured in back with dirt being removed in pieces. You can see levee material, some distance pushed inside the floodwall area, like a bulldozer pushed it.
Joseph Suhayda
It's all material stuff that can be replaced very easily.
Karl Swanson
I am going to ask them to put a bit more material in my costumes.
Jennifer Hawkins
If their permanent houses are made of the same material, they will not be able to live in them.
Samir Acharya
DVDs have new material, they offer insight and 'insider' information and they allow access to the proverbial 'favorite scenes' without excessive remote manipulation.
Jim Farrelly
I don't think those deviations are material, and I recommend we move forward.
Andy Crawford
This is the thing that India really needs to fix now. The raw material is there, but the quality is low.
Noshir Kaka
Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
Jean Piaget
This is material Stan has kept all these years in his reference collection.
John Petty
I just had a $3,000 price increase last week because of material costs. Katrina affected the market; everything like that affects the market. It increases the price for material and that reflects on us.
Mark Doveton
I started out doing social anthropology, not dealing with material culture, not dealing with things.
Marion Oettinger
Our hope is that they would replace that material with content that they would like to see distributed by our technology.
Ashwin Navin
Drama is 20 to 25 times more costly to make locally than to purchase internationally. We therefore need to be more critical in the development phase as we can't afford to 'dump' bad material that easily.
Carl Fischer
With CDs and the extra material, really what's happening is that the cost of that is being built into the textbook, and then it's being bundled as a value add, ... If we try to buy only the textbook, we're paying as much as we would for the bundled material.
Mark Freed
I don't feel comfortable when people call me an impersonator. I see myself as a performer of his material ... I know enough about him to know how different we are.
Raphael Cristy
I think were going to see a tidal wave of this kind of reuse of material.
Frank Romano
There are feminist analogies in the material. They find their power with and in each other.
Will Scheffer
It is a crime that material is being stolen from so many archives for it deprives future researchers insight into the past.
Richard Johnston
All I am saying is that the availability of fissile material has been curtailed.
Brajesh Mishra
If the intense night sweat is hitting where the material is, it does draw the moisture away.
Kate Smith
What's different about the present beaching is that we do have good biological material.
Roger Gentry
We're not going to let people get anywhere near nuclear material. If they come, they're going to die en route.
Linton Brooks
We have a very longstanding policy of not distributing material that is found to be offensive. These images have not met that standard.
Kathleen Carroll
I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they'll have, in addition to all the print material, they'll have all these pictures to look at.
Frederick Wiseman
It's state-of-the-art. It's the same material that was used on the field for this year's Super Bowl.
Cathy Brendel
The UK betting market is highly competitive and, accordingly, the board believes that any potential competition issues will not be material.
William Hill
She genuinely cares about veterans and about their well-being. It's definitely very challenging work. The material people talk about is very difficult.
Betsy Tolstedt
Nike celebrates the athletic achievements of our elite competitors. Kobe's inclusion in marketing and promotional material is an acknowledgement of his elevated level of sports performance.
Rodney Knox
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.
Potter Stewart
It is only a very small amount of material, powder really.
Kiyotaka Yashiro
We'll be looking at how well they've learned the material they should have learned as students. This has to do with the idea of accountability, and seeing what kind of job we have been doing as a university.
Robert Edmunds
All of a sudden they were the ones who had more. They realized that they have a lot of things, even material things, while the Kenyans around us really lived in poverty.
Monica Lemoine
I am really not sure what they have agreed to, ... In all the written material we've been given by our leadership, it does not specify a $35 billion amount.
Bill Archer
Right away, you felt the architecture of his music was very strong, so whatever you were going to put on top adornments or improvising you really had to know the material.
Steve Lacy
Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
Naomi Wolf
We are blending movie and bonus material such that you won't see a difference anymore.
Rudy Provoost
The more material liberated, the more X-rays are produced.
Paul O'brien
In the UK, we've had a fantastic flow of local material.
Mark Batey
The simplistic concept (of lasers) probably derived from that old James Bond movie of a laser driving down at Sean Connery. It was a big-old device with a circular beam coming down. Conceptually, that's kind of correct, but all lasers today with those big beams come from gas or material lasers.
Malcolm Thompson
Everything is gone. And it's not so much the material things. It's just ... that's home.
Joy Williams
When they go back and lecture about that material from the textbook, they have a brand-new perspective on what they're talking about.
Paul Larsen
Is this a material development for Palm? Absolutely. Is it a material development for Microsoft? Very marginally. Is it a material development for RIM? No, not really. It doesn't really change any dynamic that we're dealing with whatsoever.
Jim Balsillie
People making films today are willing to use more current material because the film's life is so much shorter.
Peter Guber
Even you if were to be able to reverse engineer the encoded material what you'd get is nonsensical to you.
Mark De Visser
Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy.
Adam Sandler
I think there always will be the need for the books and the lectures and the classrooms, and the classroom material. And that's where our secret comes in. This is supplemental to that.
Jim Wolfgang
I remember the 1950s. It seemed as if prosperity was the be all and end all. The idea was that if you had enough material goods, everything would be all right.
William Hall
I can confirm that the... personnel are not participating in customer visits. This is an error in the copy and will be amended in future material on the subject.
Michala Alexander
The material shortages have had far more effect than any cost increase due to impact fees.
Jim Folkman
We're looking for any type of material or anything that could be used to manufacture an explosive.
Maj. Ricky Gardner
Snow's admission of central banks diversifying from dollars could be used as dollar-selling material.
Teruhisa Tsuji
I really loved the kids we had tonight. We went high and we went low (with the jokes and material) and a couple of places in between.
Christopher O'riley
Our material is all so recognizable that I think the fans are going to love it. One song after another is recognizable. The tour has been going really, really good so far. There's been very little drama on the tour because all the bands get along really well.
Steve Riley
It's a challenge to handle this material.
Dale Decker
This is material. From what we're seeing, earnings estimates should probably go up for the fourth quarter, and 2005 numbers might come up as well.
Tai Nguyen
If somebody was bent on using that material in a weapon, they would most likely kill themselves and their compatriots before they were ever able to use the bomb.
Stephen Schwartz
The new material blew the other stuff away.
Stephen Richards
We nonetheless would caution investors that even a modest disruption can have a material impact to the bottom line, especially if it persists.
Michael Linenberg
MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important. Material things I know, or fell, or see; All else is immaterial to me. Jamrach Holobom.
Ambrose Bierce
So they can get a hold of it as quickly as they can. That actually happened this afternoon. We had reached out to them earlier and said, 'If you want this material, you can have it.' And, just as an extra step, we e-mailed those numbers to them.
Joe Householder
Right now, they are asking people not to travel to the area and not to send material goods.
Michael Flynn
It wasn't easy for us. None of the decisions were unanimous. We thought all the material was great.
Julian Clary
There is material in the report that the public should know.
Pat Robertson
Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.
Olusegun Obasanjo
Rising raw material and energy prices have continued to push up costs and hit profits.
John Cridland
Jonathan liked to say it?s all about looking - you just have to keep looking for material, but also evaluate critically the prints you look at to understand what makes a good print and what makes a good copy.
Andrew Spahr
We don't believe the average American wants to see tiny, embryonic boys and girls -- children -- used as experimental material.
Judie Brown
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
Bern Williams
You don't just take material from another author and put it on the stage when you do an adaptation. You have to deepen character and motivation; you have to create action and dramatic moments.
Robert Schenkkan
A good cohesive set of material if you're working within one mind-frame.
Jakob Dylan
Not only is the material in the database open but also the database itself.
Gary Price
I think the number on our financial statements might be material.
Peter Moyo
EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.
Ambrose Bierce
Early debris, early in the flight path, would be critical because that material would obviously be near the start of the events, ... It would clearly be very important to see the material earliest in the sequence.
Michael Kostelnik
My hope is that this material would somehow make its way into the pages of the paper. That's one of the benefits of doing this kind of reporting.
Lewis Friedland
I get my material from just living. I go through an experience and then decide if I want to talk about it.
Steve Hofstetter
The material from the competition will be available to the associations for use in coach education and other technical work.
Andy Roxburgh
As long as we have material to use, we can work in another alley (project).
Dan Mcclain
This shows muscle contains infected material. Anybody who may be handling or eating infected deer may be inadvertently exposed.
Glenn Telling
At $40, (Bank of America) trades at the low end of the valuation range for the CSFB Large Cap Banks, discounting a material earnings shortfall.
Susan Roth
We've done some workshops where we play with the kids. Either they play with us with our material, or we play with them with their material.
Myron Grant
We're trying to reuse as much material as we can.
Joyce Lapp
The issue here is indeed control. It is the appropriation of material that they don't own for a purpose that is, however altruistic and lofty and wonderful, nevertheless a commercial enterprise.
Nick Taylor
The plant material is still dormant, so digging them up now is far less injurious. We couldn't do this is July because we would lose everything.
Joyce Lapp
We are controlling the fundamental property of material.
Cheng Chin
It's a great platform to release new, 'big-idea' creative material.
Dave Dececco
This is an opportunity to do a lot of the material that has meant so much to me through the years but may not be compatible with a strictly bluegrass setting.
Matt Nozzolio
You know, because of the way I was raised, you have to stay strong. It's only material things.
Cynthia Miller
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
James Joyce
So there was this big slug of decaying material that introduced a big slug of nutrients into the system.
Aaron Adams
We've got the air time. We just need material to fill it.
Bryan Nelson
The form of entertainment is no problem. There are individuals who are going to react abnormally to normal material, but it's not a problem for the average person.
Paul Cambria
It will be a lot funnier. It will have a lot more raw material, as I call it.
Ben Brooks
The fact that this material is coming from a credible source and that Moffitt is reviewing this information, that's priceless.
Lauren Bush
My house is solid for now, but if this keeps up, I'm going to lose my house. With the amount of material coming down, it's not safe to stay.
Sally Moses
When you think of gay people it's funny. They wear leather. They like Judy Garland. ... Gay people, to you, are great material.
Jeff Whitty
What was really drawing me to the material was entirely unresolved feelings I still had from the age of 17. The Kennedy assassination was something that to me made no sense.
John Weidman
This is an excellent demonstration of the fact that you can use new technologies but in very basic material requested by farmers in the developing world.
Joel Cohen
The trend is to have more material sourced locally, because customers want to give you more turnkey jobs.
Hana Ceo Richard Han
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