Coal Quotes - Page 5

• The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Differences, Black

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• claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the "necessary" function of creating flat land for development To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe.

  Joseph Conrad

  Land, Practice, Creating

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• Is a park any better than a coal mine? What's a mountain got that a slag pile hasn't? What would you rather have in your garden--an almond tree or an oil well?

  Jean Giraudoux

  Garden, Oil, Tree

  Jean Giraudoux (1974). “The Madwoman of Chaillot: Comedy in Two Acts”, p.14, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns;Love is the fire and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns;The fuel Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals;The metal in this furnace wrought are men's defiled souls.

  Robert Southwell

  Blow, Love Is, Men

  Robert Southwell (1856). “Poetical Works”, p.98

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• Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.

  Allan Savory

  Agriculture, Destructive, Mining

  "Could cows and sheep halt climate change and tackle rural poverty?" by Judith D Schwartz, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2013.

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• My dad played for a coal-mining team in eastern Ohio; he was a very good pitcher. If he hadn't hurt his arm, he probably would have got a shot somewhere. He hurt his arm one spring, didn't warm up good enough, couldn't throw a fastball anymore. Another coal miner taught him how to throw the knuckleball.

  Phil Niekro

  Hurt, Dad, Team

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• The issues of going back to coal in Ontario? I don't think we're going to win that one.

  Ken Boshcoff

  Winning, Thinking, Issues

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• We hope that all coal mines will learn from the bitter lessons these accidents have taught and will strengthen their safety precautions.

  Li Yizhong

  Safety, Lessons, Taught

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• The transition from coal, oil, and gas to wind, solar, and geothermal energy is well under way. In the old economy, energy was produced by burning something - oil, coal, or natural gas - leading to the carbon emissions that have come to define our economy. The new energy economy harnesses the energy in wind, the energy coming from the sun, and heat from within the earth itself.

  Lester R. Brown

  Oil, Carbon Emissions, Wind

  "Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization". Book by Lester R. Brown, October 5, 2009.

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• In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce baby oil droplets or coal nuggets.

  Jared Diamond

  Baby, Sex, Oil

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• Aside from a couple of signature flourishes, there's nothing to mark Paycheck as the product of acclaimed action director John Woo. In fact, there's little about this movie that makes it worth anyone's time and money. With a script that waffles between being hilariously absurd and insultingly stupid, and action scenes that won't cause anyone's pulse to skip a beat, Paycheck is less appealing than a lump of coal in a Christmas stocking.

  James Berardinelli

  Couple, Stupid, Signatures

  "Paycheck (2003)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net, 2003.

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• Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Sympathy, Rose, Feelings

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• There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.

  Bill McKibben

  Wind, Oil, Burning Fossil Fuels

  "It’s Time for Interfaith Moral Action on Climate Change" by Bill McKibben, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2012.

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• Honesty, I went through terrible, terrible times where I just took myself over the coals. I thought I must be the most impure person in the world ... but because that is reverse egotism, I thought I must be the second most impure person in the world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Honesty, Rama, World

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• I've got the body of a model and the face of a coal miner.

  Jason Flemyng

  Coal Miners, Body, Faces

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• The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Bird, Alarms

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• We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It's just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous.

  David J. C. MacKay

  Wind, Feet, Nuclear

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• I do not want to heap coals of fire on anyone's head, but I would like to advise those who keep the living thought of the dead hidden away in cardboard boxes, to pass on as quickly as possibly such explosive material, whose only legitimate heir is the whole world, that is to say, my neighbor.

  Pierre Schaeffer

  Fire, World, Want

  "The Old Man and His Movements" by Pierre Schaeffer, 1964.

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• The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively dirty mineral.

  Charles Duhigg

  Dirty, Waste, Plant

  "Toxic Waters: Regulatory Absence Allows Chemical, Coal and Farm Industries to Pollute US Water Supplies". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, www.democracynow.org. October 22, 2009.

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• The national strike of the miners in 1972 performed, I believe, a great service, not only to the miners, but the people in Britain today who wanted coal.

  Michael Foot

  Believe, People, Today

  Michael Foot's speech at the House of Commons, 1974.

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• Only a sweet and virtuous soul,
  Like season'd timbered, never gives;
  But though the whole world turn to coal,
  Then chiefly lives.

  George Herbert

  Sweet, Giving, Soul

  'Outlandish Proverbs' (1640) no. 420

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• a TEN-YEAR-OLD lad in Indianapolis who was arrested for picking up coal along the side of railroad tracks is now in jail. If the boy had known enough to steal the whole railroad he would be heralded as a Napoleon of finance.

  Mother Jones

  Boys, Years, Jail

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• How did we make the transition from using wood to using coal, from using coal to using oil, from using oil to using natural gas? How in God's name did we make that transition without a Federal Energy Agency?

  Milton Friedman

  Oil, Agency, Government

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• My mom always puts a grapefruit in my stocking. I like grapefruit, but why put it in a stocking like it's a gift? It's almost as bad as coal.

  Skylar Grey

  Mom, Grapefruit, Stockings

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• My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.

  Betty Boothroyd

  Dust, Desire, Parliament

  Quoted in Glenys Kinnock and Fiona Millar (eds) By Faith and Daring (1993).

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