Materials Quotes

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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. — Willa Cather
We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy… — Fred Allen
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit,… — Noam Chomsky
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… — Deepak Chopra
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and… — Winston Churchill
A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series.… — John Bates Clark
If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials. — John Henrik Clarke
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. — Jean Cocteau
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular… — Lascelles Abercrombie
A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way. — Fisher Ames
In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object… — Tadao Ando
Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're… — Tadao Ando
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… — Thomas Aquinas
The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have… — C.S. Lewis
The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves "inside the… — Nhat Hanh
Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up… — Horace Mann
Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also… — Marie Curie
The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the veil… — Benjamin Peirce
The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again… — William Beebe

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