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raw material

«Ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea by itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.»
«I remain unchanged, defiantly unchanged. Let the raw material stay rough and raw.»
«Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.»
«EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.»
«One farmer says to me, ''You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;'' and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.»
«Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.»