Asbestos Quotes

• As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Success, Dog, Cat

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• The asbestos problem impacts everyone.

  John Engler

  Impact, Problem

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• ...The asbestos industry...has for decades successfully suppressed and manipulated information on the carcinogenicity and other hazards of asbestos. Involved in this conspiracy network were senior industry executives, their medical staff, attorneys, insurance companies, trade associations, scientific consultants, and commercial labs.

  Samuel Epstein

  Senior, Dark, Age

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• Asbestos, EMFs, and CFCs have given us a degree of humility. When yesterday's "triumph of modern chemistry" turns out instead to be today's deadly threat to the global environment, it is legitimate to ask what else we don't know.

  Denis Hayes

  Humility, Yesterday, Environmental

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• Despite my asbestos gloves,
  the cough is filling me with black,
  and a red powder seeps through my veins.

  Anne Sexton

  Fire, Black, Burning

  Anne Sexton, “Love Letter Written In A Burning BuILDIng”

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• We are very encouraged that the results from our monitoring of air quality and drinking water conditions in both New York and near the Pentagon show that the public in these areas is not being exposed to excessive levels of asbestos or other harmful substances. I am glad to reassure the people of New York and Washington, D.C. that their air is safe to breathe and their water is safe to drink.

  Christine Todd Whitman

  New York, Drinking, Air

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• He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitible? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things.' Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame. But flame is transient, often short lived. Canst thou bear this, my soul - short life? ... Make me thy fuel, Flame of God.

  Jim Elliot

  Short Life, Godly, Fire

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• This is the most exciting place in the world to live. Oh yeah! There are so many ways to die in New York City! Race riots, drive by shootings, subway crashes, construction cranes collapsing on the sidewalks, manhole covers blowing up and asbestos shooting into the sky.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, New York, Humor

  "Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer". m.imdb.com. 1993.

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• I'm the bestest/on a bad day I spit asbestos.

  Earl Sweatshirt

  Bad Day, Spit

  Song: Molliwopped

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• I really wish they hadn't made the set out of asbestos.

  David Mitchell

  Funny, Wish, Comedy

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• The psyche is highly flammable material. So we are always wrapping things in asbestos, keeping our images and fantasies at arm's length because they are so full of love

  James Hillman

  Arms, Fantasy, Length

  James Hillman, Laura Pozzo (1983). “Inter Views: Conversations With Laura Pozzp on Psychotherapy, Biography, Love, Soul, Dreams, Work, Imagination and the State of the Culture”, Harpercollins

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• Warm-hearted! I should think he has to wear asbestos vests!

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Thinking, Vests, Should

  P. G. Wodehouse (2016). “Expecting Jeeves”, p.148, Courier Dover Publications

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• God deliver me from the dread asbestos of “other things.” Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame.

  Jim Elliot

  Oil, May, Spirit

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• When thou diest, thy soul will be tormented alone; that will be a hell for it, but at the day of judgment they body will join thy soul, and then thou wilt have twin hells, thy soul sweating drops of blood, and thy body suffused with agony. In fire exactly like that which we have on earth thy body will lie, asbestos-like, forever unconsumed, all they veins roads for the feet of pain to travel on, every nerve a string on which the devil shall forever play his diabolical tune of 'Hell's Unutterable Lament'.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Pain, Lying, Fire

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• There's only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a Democratic presidential candidate. He's half African-American. Whether that will make any difference, I don't know. I haven't heard him have a strong crackdown on economic exploitation in the ghettos. Payday loans, predatory lending, asbestos, lead. What's keeping him from doing that? Is it because he wants to talk white? He doesn't want to appear like Jesse Jackson? We'll see all that play out in the next few months and if he gets elected afterwards.

  Ralph Nader

  Strong, Ghetto, White

  "Obama using 'white guilt,' Nader says" by Alexander Mooney, www.cnn.com. June 26, 2008.

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