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Since the introduction of inanimate mechanism into British manufactories, man, with few exceptions, has been treated as a secondary and inferior machine; and far more attention has been given to perfect the raw materials of wood and metals than those of body and mind.

Robert Owen

Men, Perfect, Mind

Robert Owen (1837). “Essays on the Formation of the Human Character”, p.29

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With knowledge now the key raw material for creating all economic wealth, the new power struggles will reach deep into our minds and our personal lives. That's why we believe the only empire that will survive in the 21st century will be the empire you build within your own mind.

Denis Waitley

Struggle, Believe, Creating

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I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved upon the old by giving the new slaves the illusion that they are free. The Economy does not take people's freedom by force, which would be against its principles, for it is very humane. It buys their freedom, pays for it, and then persuades its money back again with shoddy goods and the promise of freedom. "Buy a car," it says, "and be free. Buy a boat and be free." Is this not the raw material of bad dreams? Or is it maybe the very nightmare itself?

Wendell Berry

Dream, Thinking, People

Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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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. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of commercial exchange. These currents are untraceable.

John Bates Clark

Sight, Currents, Workers

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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

Fate, Destiny, Men

Howard Thurman (2006). “Howard Thurman: Essential Writings”

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Hope is the raw material of losers.

Fernando Flores

Sunset, Loser, Materials

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Humanity stands ... before a great problem of finding new raw materials and new sources of energy that shall never become exhausted. In the meantime we must not waste what we have, but must leave as much as possible for coming generations.

Svante Arrhenius

Humanity, Dinosaurs, Waste

Svante Arrhenius (1925). “Chemistry in modern life”

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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

Father, Missing, Advice

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Plant genetic resources are seldom 'raw materials'; they are the expression of the current wisdom of farmers who have played a highly significant role in the building up of the world's genetic resource base... As is already happening in my country, farmers and national genebanks in developing countries can work together to preserve and expand crop genetic diversity on behalf of all humanity.

Melaku Worede

Country, Expression, Building Up

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"You know you are seeing such a photograph if you say to yourself, "I could have taken that picture. I've seen such a scene before, but never like that." It is the kind of photography that relies for its strengths not on special equipment or effects but on the intensity of the photographer's seeing. It is the kind of photography in which the raw materials-light, space, and shape-are arranged in a meaningful and even universal way that gives grace to ordinary objects."

Sam Abell

Meaningful, Photography, Taken

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Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.

Aldo Leopold

Men, Civilization, Wilderness

Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.223, Library of America

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Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

Craig Mundie

Data Collection, Thought Provoking, Data Science

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The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air water & soil, all abundantly available, nor for energy which exists in plenty in the sun and any hot body in the form of heat, but rather a struggle for entropy, which becomes available through the transition of energy from the hot sun to the cold earth.

Ludwig Boltzmann

Struggle, Air, Water

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Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and Rousseau's criticism of them... Nature is raw material, worthless without the mixture of human labor; yet nature is also the highest and most sacred thing. The same people who struggle to save the snail-darter bless the pill, worry about hunting deer and defend abortion. Reverence for nature, mastery of nature- whichever is convenient.

Allan Bloom

Struggle, Hunting, Views

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I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.

Sylvia Plath

Thinking, People, Feminism

Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.9, Anchor

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Faith was the raw material substance that the Spirit of God used to form the universe.

Kenneth Copeland

Substance, Spirit, Used

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I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because I had “become a lesbian”—but because I had returned to my own body after years of alienation. The sensual details of life are the raw materials of a poet—and with that falling-in-love I was able to return to living fully in my own fleshly self.

Minnie Bruce Pratt

Falling In Love, Writing, Self

"Minnie Bruce Pratt: Feminist Poet Describes Call To Action, Struggle To Write" By Minnie Bruce Pratt, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2011.

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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

Food, Giving, Fuel

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Quantitative work shows clearly that natural selection is a reality, and that, among other things, it selects Mendelian genes, which are known to be distributed at random through wild populations, and to follow the laws of chance in their distribution to offspring. In other words, they are an agency producing variation of the kind which Darwin postulated as the raw material on which selection acts.

John B. S. Haldane

Reality, Agency, Law

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Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material.

Dorothy Richardson

Creativity, Self, Life Is

Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

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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 eye to see the good, and the imagination will follow suit.

Ravi Zacharias

Encouragement, Eye, Discipline

FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jul 15, 2013

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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, but most of them are ruined in the process of preparing them for the table.

H. L. Mencken

Country, World, Tables

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Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products.

John Engler

Building Things, Transforming, Products

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... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, then you are interested in poetry.

Marianne Moore

Real, Garden, Hands

Marianne Moore (2016). “Observations: Poems”, p.27, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed forward incessantly and never rested from his labors, who grew fast and made infinite demands on life, would always find himself in a new country or wilderness, and surrounded by the raw material of life. He would be climbing over the prostrate stems of primitive forest trees.

Henry David Thoreau

Country, Men, Climbing

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.11, 谷月社

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