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• What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

  John Berger

  Inspirational, Photography, Light

  John Berger, Jean Mohr (2016). “Another Way of Telling: A Possible Theory of Photography”, p.75, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year.

  John Bolton

  Years, Iraq, Nuclear

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• 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

  Hands, Order, Accepted

  "Constructing Futures: Industry leaders and futures thinking in construction". Book by Paul Chan, Rachel Cooper, p. 105, December 8, 2010.

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• Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Music, Clothes, Shelter

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• Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.

  William J. Brennan

  Class, Decision, Congress

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• If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, Race, Wish

  Winston Churchill (1961). “The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953 to 1959”

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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, Raw Materials, Currents

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• I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.

  Jim Hodges

  Moving, Long, Firsts

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• 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

  Thank You, Education, Thankful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1970). “The development of personality”

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• Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

  John Locke

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  John Locke (1824). “The Works of John Locke: Essay concerning human understanding (concluded) Defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentlemen. Elements of natural philosophy. New method of a common-place-book”, p.356

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• Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

  Bernard Williams

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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• Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

  Mao Zedong

  Military, War, Men

  Zedong Mao (1954). “Selected Works”

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• Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Men, Aggravation

  "Paul Ryan's faith in Ayn Rand is a political problem for Romney" by Giles Fraser, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2012.

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• The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation.

  Peter Garrett

  Play, People, Generations

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Ideas, Intellectual

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1970). “The German Ideology”, p.64, INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO

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• When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Animal, Land, Vaccines

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• I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.

  Lucinda Williams

  Band, Wanted

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• I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, God, Responsibility

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.94, Modern Library

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• I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.

  F. Murray Abraham

  Interesting, Wonderful, Comfortable

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.

  Anish Kapoor

  Matter, Far Away, Consideration

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• Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Ordinary, Genius, Done

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.311

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• To pick up a cigarette wrapper or wine label or an old letter or the end of a carton is my way of dealing with those things that do not originate in me, in my I.

  Robert Motherwell

  Wine, Labels, Letters

  Robert Motherwell, David Rosand (1997). “Robert Motherwell on paper: drawings, prints, collages”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• Use lots of paint and don't worry, they will make more.

  Richard Schmid

  Worry, Use, Paint

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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

  Change, Believe, Despair

  William S. Burroughs (1988). “The Western Lands”, Penguin Group USA

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• Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

  Richard L. Evans

  Inspirational, Children, Teaching

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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