Raw Quotes
702 quotes by 607 authors
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To expect ... the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and perhaps never will…
— George Washington
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Do you guys have any raw garlic?
— Shailene Woodley
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A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.
— Eric Hoffer
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A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till about forty.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Why do they bother saying "raw sewage"? Do some people actually cook that stuff?
— George Carlin
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EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.
— Ambrose Bierce
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One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.
— Fran Lebowitz
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32 grams raw, chop it in half, get 16. Double it times three, we got 48. Which mean a whole lot of cream. Divide the…
— Foxy Brown
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What's it like, Lexy? You wake up and you feel - what? Heaviness, an ache inside, a weight, yes. A soft crumpling of the flesh.…
— Carolyn Parkhurst
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Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that…
— Eudora Welty
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There is as much difference between a collection of mentally free citizens and a community molded by modern methods of propaganda as there is between…
— Bertrand Russell
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What we need in this country is a general improvement in eating. We have the best raw materials in the world, both quantitatively and qualitatively,…
— H. L. Mencken
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Where the eye is focused, there the imagination finds its raw material. The right focus must be won at immense cost and discipline. Train the…
— Ravi Zacharias
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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let…
— Jonathan Swift
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Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material.
— Dorothy Richardson
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Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.
— Howard Thurman
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Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline.…
— Eric Burns
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