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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. -- John Berger
When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them. -- Rene Redzepi
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 for imagination are inexhaustible here. -- Deepak Chopra
Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control. -- Barbara Amiel
Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease. -- Karel Capek
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
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
The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race. -- Branch Rickey
Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage. -- Petra Kelly
In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting. -- Viggo Mortensen
Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave. -- Martha Beck
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
You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself. -- Warren G. Bennis
And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it. -- Neil Gaiman
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Give me great sinners to make great saints! They are glorious raw material for Grace to work upon and when you do get them saved, they will shake the very gates of Hell! -- Charles Spurgeon
I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity. -- Chaim Potok
Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
People mistakenly think that art is about nature, or about an artists feelings about nature. It is instead a path of enlightenment and pleasure, one of many paths, where nature and the artists feelings are merely raw material. -- Wolf Kahn
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 never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are. -- Jose Saramago
Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. -- Jorge Luis Borges
I come from a farming culture, where we valued raw materials above all. -- Brunello Cucinelli
The right raw materials can... double or triple the protective power of the immune system. -- Joel Fuhrman
Costs of manufactured articles importantly depend on the cost of raw materials as well as labour. -- Charles E. Wilson
If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse. -- Yusuf Hamied
Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products. -- John Engler
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
When America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as Australia, Brazil, and other suppliers of raw materials. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Expressing the thoughts of my comrades, I suggested, among other means, the organization of an international information service on inventories, on production, and on the needs of the various countries for raw materials. -- Leon Jouhaux
America's workers face a battle for their jobs. They are the finest workers in the world. American workers grow, harvest, and mine some of the world's highest quality and most plentiful raw materials. -- Kit Bond
Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working. -- Gianni Agnelli
Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials. -- Thor Heyerdahl
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
If we use goods made from raw materials that are obtained from a poor country without the proceeds being used to benefit the people of that country, we become complicit in a particularly iniquitous form of grand larceny. -- Peter Singer
Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later. -- Oscar Isaac
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
I faced a number of challenges whilst I built Biocon. Initially, I had credibility challenges where I couldn't get banks to fund me; I couldn't recruit people to work for a woman boss. Even in the businesses where I had to procure raw materials, they didn't want to deal with women. -- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor. -- Hugh Masekela
Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city. -- Evo Morales
The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same for the use of energy and raw materials, meat, wood, etc. Simply put, an infinitesimal minority consumes the most and imposes damage on the overwhelming majority, while asking it to change. -- Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials. -- Joseph Hume
The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory. -- Keith Carter
Your strengths are the raw materials that God needs to make your dreams happen. -- Bidemi Mark-Mordi
However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth. -- Wright Morris
The right raw materials can...double or triple the protective power of the immune system, -- Joel Fuhrman
The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them. -- Charles E. Wilson
One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine. -- Mira Grant
I don't think that governments should permit speculation in raw materials, because they're what the economy basically needs. -- Michael Hudson
Life is pain. War is change. The raw materials of life hammered and shaped into something with a purpose. -- James A. Moore
The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy. -- Peter Drucker
Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself. -- Charlton Heston
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
I mean, it's like we all get our raw materials from our families"?but it's up to us whether we build bridges or bombs. -- Neal Shusterman
You were born with two things: existence and opportunity, and these are the raw materials out of which you can make a successful life. -- Charles Templeton
How can it be "mutually beneficial" to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and suffering. -- Che Guevara
We believe that the materials and the stories taken from the raw can be finer (more real in the philosophic sense) than the acted article. -- John Grierson
The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A citizen of an advanced industrialized nation consumes in six months the energy and raw materials that have to last the citizen of a developing country his entire lifetime. -- Maurice Strong
Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited. -- Hjalmar Schacht
Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited -- Hjalmar Schacht
Photography is a source of raw materials as I believe the camera is never perfect and will never be able to express in full what I see and feel. -- Nikolay Semyonov
The raw materials of reality without the glue of time are materials adrift and reality is as meaningless as the balsa parts of a model airplane scattered to the wind. -- Ken Kesey
For all fragrances I create, I ask each of my suppliers to deliver and provide the best raw materials. It is my personal quest for excellence and quality to create luxury perfumes... -- Francis Kurkdjian
We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to be complemented with the import of oil and gas from other sources as raw materials. -- Hassanal Bolkiah
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 a heap of raw materials and a battleship. -- Bertrand Russell
America's workers face a battle for their jobs. They are the finest workers in the world. American workers grow, harvest, and mine some of the world's highest quality and most plentiful raw materials. -- Kit Bond
The future does not really lie in discovering new fragrant raw materials.... In order to endure, haute perfumery is therefore condemned to inventing new olfactory promises...to finding a new form of expression. -- Jean-Claude Ellena
There are capitalist states which consider themselves cheated, during previous redivisions of spheres of influence, territories, sources of raw materials, markets, etc., and which would again desire to redivide them to their own advantage. -- Joseph Stalin
Always look for these changing technology factors- any market that has a significant change in the underlying raw materials ...or enabling factors, is an environment that is about to change in a very significant way. -- Aaron Levie

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