Raw Material Quotes
97 quotes by 88 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material.
— Dorothy Richardson
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Hope is the raw material of losers.
— Fernando Flores
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Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores.
— Geoffrey Madan
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Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
— Aldo Leopold
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Data are becoming the new raw material of business.
— Craig Mundie
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Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
— Arnold Bennett
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Everything that happens in my day is a transaction between the external world and my internal world. Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything…
— Twyla Tharp
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I put out a lot of different kinds of material, and maybe people read that as egotistical. Or maybe, since a lot of it does…
— James Franco
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Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material. It was very…
— Aldo Leopold
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