Jean Cocteau
Poet, Novelist, Playwright
"Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper."
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Raw Materials
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Charles Edison
Inventor, Businessman
"He [Thomas Edison] considered [money] as a raw material, like metal, to be used rather than amassed, and so he kept plowing his funds into new projects. Several times he was all but bankrupt. But he refused to let dollar signs govern his actions."
Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy."
Benjamin Graham
Investor, Author
"Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses. ... Galileo and Hume first upheld this principle with full clarity and decisiveness."
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"Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes."
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"The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It supplies raw material only. Natural selection directs the course of evolutionary change."
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"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."
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"I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in making, but shall draw its raw material largely from the annual produce of the fields. I am convinced that we shall be able to get out of yearly crops most of the basic materials which we now get from forest and mine."
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"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."
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"The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material."
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"Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal."
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"Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order."
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"The philosophies that have been inspired by scientific technique are power philosophies, and tend to regard everything non-human as mere raw material. Ends are no longer considered; only the skillfulness of the process is valued. This also is a form of madness. It is, in our day, the most dangerous form, and the one against which a sane philosophy should provide an antidote"
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"Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up."
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"Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas."
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"Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others."
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"I don't think that we have to look like the models in the magazines because they are 19 year olds and they have been photo shopped extensively, not but given what I, we have as the raw material, take care of it."
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"Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials."
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"One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine."
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