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Nietzsche was the Marx of the right, the original culture warrior who believed that the future belongs to those with the courage to face the nihilism of the present and mold it like potter’s clay.

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2018

Fresh masa has a thicker consistency, more like potter’s clay, and it smells like slightly fermented corn syrup, especially if it sits out for 24 hours before you use it.

From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2015

That furnished by art dealers is best, but for common use potter's clay is all that is necessary.

From Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration by Farnham, Albert B.

Know ye not, Of potter's clay the children, that this spot Is sacred to the Everlasting One— The Ruler over heaven, and over earth?

From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 by Various

Argil, �r′jil, n. potter's clay: pure clay or alumina.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various



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