materials quotes

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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.

Henry David Thoreau

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

Florence Nightingale

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

Henry David Thoreau

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

George Orwell