Any system, biological, economic, or social, that gets so encrusted that it cannot self-evolve, a system that systematically scorns experimentation and wipes… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece… — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
“I had been reading children's books all my life and saw them not as minor amusements but as part of the whole… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it’s… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“I decree and I declare that I am not a raw material but rather a finished product. God knows me and knows… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...all around George, approaching him, crossing his path from every direction, is the male and female raw material which is fed daily… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Strong passions are the precious raw material of sanctity. Individuals that have carried their sinning to extremes should not despair or say,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
When we sell a kilo of bean coffee in Uganda, we get one dollar per kilo. The same kilo, when it is… — Yoweri Museveni Copy Share Image
Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Now, ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea itself… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Christians and Jews go after those who have access to raw materials but who prevent access to them. Oil is the best… — Abdul Sattar Abu Risha Copy Share Image
In a world where so much happens through computer screens, making a meal by hand, touching the raw materials, feeling your way… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
“I hate the indifferent. I believe that living means taking sides. Those who really live cannot help being a citizen and a… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
We see that the environment is something to exploit, because we see the environment in terms of minerals for example, or forests,… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image