#raw materia

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

#always #appreciated #because #cliches #copies

The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#directly #fluctuate #labour #materials #prices

Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#fortunately #her #imports #materials #raw

What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#craft #divorce #film #going #hard

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race. ↗

— Branch Rickey

#game #greatest #history #material #our

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

#been #billion #chemical #earth #enable

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

#considering #downstream #gas #import #industries

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

#comrades #countries #expressing #i #information

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

#american #american workers #battle #face #finest

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

#destroy #else #everything #exterminate #factories