WORMS'-MEAT, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material.
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GARY F EVANS... If raw materials pick up again, of course we have to go back to product prices. But if raw material ...
MATTHIAS ZACHERT I decree and I declare that I am not a raw material but rather a finished product. God knows me and ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Money is a by-product of time. Money is the time that is well converted. Therefore, time is the raw ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA The mind processes thoughts to things,just the way a factory processes raw material to finished good...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A well-run facility will keep raw, uncooked products in one area of the facility and finished materi...
JOEL ADAMSON Time is the raw material from which products are made, when products are sold, money is made.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Time is the raw material from which money is made.
SUNDAY ADELAJA That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out...
C.S. LEWIS A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS The worst of me is the raw material from which God molds the best of me.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH We are doubling our capacity for the raw material over the course of the next three years.
NABEEL GAREEB The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Hope is the raw material of losers.
FERNANDO FLORES We still have the raw material, there is no doubt about that.
JIMMY ADAMS An energy is the very foundation upon which the world is built and raw material with which everythin...
SUNDAY ADELAJA We have corn production, the growers, we have the expertise to provide the raw material.
DON SCHURR Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON God doesn't NEED raw material. He MAKES material.
MATT CHANDLER Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the es...
E. J. HOBSBAWM Everything you are now is the raw material needed to produce the result of the fully awakened state.
DOMO GESHE How about this?' Simmon asked me. "Which is worse, stealing a pie or killing Ambrose?"
I gave i...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Inventory of our thoughts is the raw material We use to carry out planning & executing Tasks
ASHISH SOPHAT We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of ...
DEEPAK CHOPRA Doubt is the raw material that produces fear.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We tried to fully push raw material price increases through to the end market.
MATTHIAS ZACHERT Everything is raw material to me. Land is raw material... I take one form and transform it into othe...
THEASTER GATES We've taken our timely raw-material timber-pricing data to the next level, which will ultimately hel...
PETE STEWART We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw mate...
DEEPAK CHOPRA So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
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LYNHAAR RODRIGUEZ An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a mach...
ALDRICH AMES Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make. �...
VICE PRESIDENT DAN QUAYLE Writers don't forget the past; they turn it into raw material.
JOYCE RACHELLE I don't believe a player is ever a finished product.
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HOPE MIRRLEES The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.
BRANCH RICKEY Currency factors, high raw material prices and intense competition are all having an adverse impact.
HELMUT PANKE It's a lighter breading, ... It's definitely a better piece of meat than a lot of places. If you're ...
FRED SCHMIDT Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or deba...
CATHY BETTER Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever...
CRAIG CLEVENGER The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind...
DAVID OGILVY The adverse external factors -- unfavorable exchange rates, high raw-material prices and intense com...
HELMUT PANKE To meet the challenge of stable (raw material) supplies we believe the solution is to invest in coun...
XIAO YAQING If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... The finished product is often of less importance than the skills and confidence gained through the p...
BEN EDWARDS In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.'
VIGGO MORTENSEN Out of the basic raw material called life,the onus has fallen on us to mould great success.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for ...
DAVID OGILVY Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are re...
ALEXANDER CRUMMELL I'm always kidding that we keep him in a cage and feed him raw meat. On game day, we turn him loose.
MARCUS WASHINGTON I don't think a comparison of the raw count of vulnerabilities is representative of the security of ...
CHRIS BEARD Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
AMBROSE BIERCE CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table ...
OTTO VON BISMARCK The words you can’t find, you borrow.
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PAUL GOODMAN CDs, as a physical product, are almost finished. Basically it's going to be "Wide World of Online."
JAN HAMMER We are grateful to local consumers for their increased consumption of ostrich meat, which expanded t...
ANTON KRUGER The great raw material the great use to accomplish great things is nothing but ordinary belief.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We plan to maintain our 10-15 percent (price) premium over our competitors. We are paying close atte...
EDOUARD MICHELIN I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form th...
BRUCE CHATWIN In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
VIGGO MORTENSEN It's a job you can be proud of. You can see the finished product.
GARY MARTIN My Ph.D. thesis concerned the metabolic mechanism by which the end product of nitrogen metabolism in...
STANLEY COHEN Raw meat, poultry and seafood present the greatest risk. However, outbreaks have also been linked to...
CAROLINE SMITH DEWAAL There's huge demand. These users are realizing that with such high raw material prices, it makes sen...
MARK PERVAN That's always the most productive research - research into tone, into voice. Facts are nice, too...
JONATHAN DEE I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at le...
KURT VONNEGUT JR. Recent volatility in raw material prices, however, makes first quarter forecasting difficult.
WILLIAM JOYCE I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON The year Reagan was sworn into office, 1981, the United States was the largest importer of raw mater...
THOM HARTMANN We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically ...
DAISY BERKOWITZ Maybe the past is an anchor holding us back. Maybe, you have to let go of who you are to become who ...
SEX AND THE CITY The big raw material-type stocks tend to get sold off because the demand picture is less certain.
JAMIE SPITERI Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
F. JOHNSON Businesses have to seek their raw material elsewhere, and it's costing them more.
ED LARSON Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the e...
EARL BROWDER Paper comes in one end and the finished product goes out the other.
BEN GRAHAM It's an industry with strong growth. We thought that rising raw-material costs would reduce corporat...
JACQUES PORTA She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.
MIRIAM TOEWS We found quite a collection of debris in there -- worms, frogs, salamanders and granular calcium, wh...
TONY DAVIS I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The world is not to be approached, blueprint in hand, as if it were so much raw material waiting to ...
JONATHAN SCHELL We must affirm freedom and responsibility without denying that we are the product of circumstance, a...
ALLEN WHEELIS Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes...
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AMBROSE BIERCE Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
AMBROSE BIERCE Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction ...
AMBROSE BIERCE The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
AMBROSE BIERCE TELEPHONE n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeab...
AMBROSE BIERCE Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
AMBROSE BIERCE Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
AMBROSE BIERCE Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
AMBROSE BIERCE Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
AMBROSE BIERCE Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and wa...
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