#materials

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

#common #doing #done #faculties #genius

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense. ↗

— John Hersey

#defense #fabricate #failure #materials #mine

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

If these assets were set up as a revolving fund with which Japan could import raw materials for its industries, Japanese exports could again enter the channels of world trade-and Japanese workers would have employment and something to eat. ↗

— James Forrestal

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Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#behavior #being #certain #changes #characters

There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#bad #been #curriculum #elementary #elementary school

The income from sales now covers the expense of materials but I expect this to improve. ↗

— Mike Thompson

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Costs of manufactured articles importantly depend on the cost of raw materials as well as labour. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#cost #costs #depend #importantly #labour

The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#because #cycling #depends #energy #major

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

— John Locke

#knowledge #makes #materials #mind #only