potter's clay

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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

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

Mansell was as potter's clay in this man's hands.

From The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley by Cullum, Ridgwell

The first of these I shall call generally, henceforward, the school of crystal; the other that of clay: potter's clay, or human, are too sorrowfully the same, as far as art is concerned.

From Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 by Ruskin, John