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"Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form." »Stephen Nachmanovitch
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"The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways." »Bertrand Russell
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"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours." »John Locke
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"Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race." »Henry G. Stott
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"War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent." »George Orwell, 1984
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"Engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity." »R. E. Hellmund
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"I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability." »Oscar Wilde
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"I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability." »Oscar Wilde
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"It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed." »Vida D. Scudder
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"The only excuse for creating something useless is that one admires it intensely." »Oscar Wilde, Foreward, The Picture of Dorian gray
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"It is better to create than to learn! creating is the essence of life." »Gaius Julius Caesar
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"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new." »Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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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 the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields." »Henry Ford, 1934
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"Engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the forces and materials of nature by means of organization, design and construction, for the general benefit of mankind." »S. E. Lindsay
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"The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them." »I. F. Stone
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"All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it." »Mark Twain
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"Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want." »Martha Beck
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"Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed." »Vida D. Scudder
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"If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again." »Mary Beth Danielson
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"In creating, the only hard thing is to begin a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak." »James Russell Lowell
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"The greatest lesson in life to learn is that Love is not about finding the right person, but creating for a right relationship.
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"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail." »Napoleon Hill
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"In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones." »Joseph Priestly
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"Who are you going to shoot joking with Attorney General Richard Kleindienst about creating an opening on the Supreme court" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating." »Andrew Schneider
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"No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back." »John Holt
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"The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media." »Eduard Sagalaev
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"But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously." »Paul Wiener
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"I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization." »Detronius Arbiter
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