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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. -- John Berger
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. -- John Locke
We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. -- Cecil Rhodes
Materials are very important to me, and always have been. -- Patricia Piccinini
There are two trilogies I admire: Robertson Davies's 'The Deptford Trilogy' and Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials.' -- Amy Bloom
There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Vision, Uncertainty, and Knowledge of Materials are inevitabilities that all artists must acknowledge and learn from: vision is always ahead of execution, knowledge of materials is your contact with reality, and uncertainty is a virtue. -- David Bayles
Tolkien seems to me reactionary, conservative, fearful of a modern world. Fearful of anything that isn't sanctioned by the passage of long eons of time. I think what I'm doing in His Dark Materials is politically the reverse of that. -- Philip Pullman
I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be a gateway story that opens it up for me; that happened for me with 'Paradise Lost' and the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy. -- Helen Oyeyemi
Make the workmanship surpass the materials. -- Ovid
Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room. -- Edwin Land
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. -- Bernard Williams
You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials -- Natalia Ginzburg
There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action. -- Chiang Kai-shek
In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed. -- Henry David Thoreau
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. -- Willa Cather
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. -- Jean Cocteau
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them. -- Richard L. Evans
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts. -- Mao Zedong
The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world. -- E. O. Wilson
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead. -- James Joyce
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back. -- Imelda Marcos
Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products. -- John Engler
If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. -- Robert Quillen
Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination. -- Atul Gawande
When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh. -- Maurice de Vlaminck
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. -- George Orwell
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
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
The next time you see a spider web, please, pause and look a little closer. You'll be seeing one of the most high-performance materials known to man. -- Cheryl Hayashi
Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat. -- Neal Barnard
For me, it's really like, okay, if you go far with the unexpected materials and unexpected proportions or volumes, then keep the colors quite simple and straightforward for men. -- Dries van Noten
Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box. -- Adam Savage
When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission. -- Janet Echelman
I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off. -- Mike Thompson
Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients. -- Paul Rand
After the Cold War ended, there was an agreement between the former Soviet Union and America to convert weapons-grade nuclear materials into reactor-grade materials. So disarmament and nuclear energy actually are strongly linked. -- Susan Eisenhower
In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. -- Simone Weil
In a world where so much happens through computer screens, making a meal by hand, touching the raw materials, feeling your way through a recipe, tasting, adjusting, engaging all the senses, can be a soothing release. -- Carl Honore
There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment. -- Mark Twain
Many people know that Ethiopia is poor. When I break a world record, maybe people get to know something else about Ethiopia, something good. We can't make planes or cars, we don't have the materials. We do what we can. -- Haile Gebrselassie
Just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, and just as we must understand functions, we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of the day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise, for we are dependent on the spirit of our time. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth. -- John Polkinghorne
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. -- Carl Jung
I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important. -- David Rockefeller
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 for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside. -- Tadao Ando
What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out. -- Ice Cube
Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece of 'stuff' but a physical embodiment of human energy, testimony to the magical ability of our species to take raw materials and turn them into things of use, value and beauty. -- Kevin McCloud
For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around. -- Pat Metheny
Mining asteroids is a well-oiled trope of science-fiction. But someday, actually doing it will make economic sense. Many of the essential metals of our society, such as platinum, copper and zinc, are rapidly becoming scarce. The asteroids might offer a replacement supply, providing the materials our descendants will need for a high quality life. -- Seth Shostak
I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember very clearly a vision I had of a little green reindeer when I was a child, and visions emanate from the same mythical area where painting resides. Whatever the reason, I immediately felt comfortable working with visual materials. -- William S. Burroughs
The materials shape your idea. -- Erik Spiekermann
I don't compose. I assemble materials. -- Aaron Copland
Art should be born from the materials. -- Jean Dubuffet
Sell your materials but save your morals. -- Amit Kalantri
Painting is so much more than the materials. -- Brian Johnson
The biggest things in life are not materials. -- Carlos Slim
Certain materials suggest ideas and ways of working. -- David Batchelor
I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies. -- Marc Newson
I'm a simple man, and I use simple materials. -- L. S. Lowry
Surprise, unpredictability: these are the main materials of creativity. -- Gueorgui Pinkhassov
An artist should use freely whatever materials he pleases. -- Shozaburo Watanabe
I take classified materials very seriously and always have. -- Hillary Clinton
Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials. -- Joseph Hume
When the materials are ready, the architects shall appear. -- Walt Whitman
The materials for poetry are all about you in profusion. -- Masaoka Shiki
People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die. -- Jim Davidson
The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory. -- Keith Carter
Knowing how to market yourself and your press materials is key. -- Wendy Starland
Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice]. -- M. Night Shyamalan
Anger and hatred are the materials from which hell is made. -- Nhat Hanh
Big data in education has huge potential to improve learning materials. -- Jose Ferreira
The materials I use are absolutely essential to the work I make. -- David Batchelor
it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials. -- John Steinbeck
Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance. -- Keith Ellison
I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images. -- Dan Colen
Many of the poems weave autobiographical elements with fabular or mythic materials. -- Anna Journey
Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold. -- Anais Nin
Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work. -- Peter Drucker
I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials. -- Nancy Horan
I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions. -- Zaha Hadid
Not worrying about the cost of materials and tools extends my artistic freedom. -- Jim Rowe
The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven. -- Frederick William Robertson
Reusing and recycling our materials is the most important thing we can do. -- Nikki Reed
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials. -- Laozi
You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials. -- Natalia Ginzburg
There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I have a lot of stuff. Slowly I'm getting all my materials organized. -- Ian MacKaye
I come from a farming culture, where we valued raw materials above all. -- Brunello Cucinelli
The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration. -- Mervyn Levy
Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs. -- Robert Reich
The perfumer fakes nature by blending different types of materials to reproduce their scent. -- Francis Kurkdjian
No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
I consider a story merely as a frame on which to stretch my materials. -- Washington Irving
The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit. -- Odilon Redon
However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth. -- Wright Morris
The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale. -- Ernest Hemingway
Your strengths are the raw materials that God needs to make your dreams happen. -- Bidemi Mark-Mordi
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way. -- Dale Chihuly
The right raw materials can...double or triple the protective power of the immune system, -- Joel Fuhrman
There has to be policies about that, about what materials we use and so on. -- Richard Rogers
Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters -- George Monbiot
The right raw materials can... double or triple the protective power of the immune system. -- Joel Fuhrman
Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar. -- John Stuart Mill
Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Use unlikely materials. Who would choose Pnin as hero, but how did we live before Pnin? -- Vladimir Nabokov
I love it when people can actually engage with the materials of the sacrament in advance. -- Pope Francis
I don't write my own publicity materials, I just read 'em and give 'em the OK. -- John Darnielle
The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them. -- Charles E. Wilson
Costs of manufactured articles importantly depend on the cost of raw materials as well as labour. -- Charles E. Wilson
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will. -- Novalis
If we have authentic, honest, earthy materials in our houses, we'll be more authentic, honest and natural. -- Alexandra Stoddard
Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, selecting, and reorganizing its own materials. -- Joseph Story
The Soul is not composed of any materials. It is unity indivisible. Therefore it must be indestructible. -- Swami Vivekananda

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