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• It doesn't seem to matter what we think...The prince will come up here and look at us as if we're barrels in a trader's wagon. And if I'm salt pork and he doesn't care for salt pork, then there's nothing I can do.

  Shannon Hale

  Thinking, Salt, Wagons

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• There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation.

  James Buchan

  Birthday, Running, Average

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• A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Ignorance, Science, Ignorant

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• I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle when I was 9 and a single barrel .410 shotgun when I was 10.

  Jon Meacham

  Father, Gun, Rifles

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• How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Gun, Democracy

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• I do believe that oil production globally has peaked at 85 million barrels. And I've been very vocal about it. And what happens? The demand continues to rise. The only way you can possibly kill demand is with price. So the price of oil, gasoline, has to go up to kill the demand. Otherwise, keep the price down, the demand rises.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Believe, Oil, Gasoline

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• If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.

  Alan Sugar

  Teacher, Years, Piano

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• Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Heart, Oil, Arabia

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• Online advertising may not be much more successful than an old double-barrel, but - like a good spray of buckshot - it makes up for its lack of accuracy with sheer volume. There are 10 unique ads listed with every Gmail message in your queue, each tied to the message content. And a paying sponsor.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Successful, Unique, May

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• ...."the sound of a barrel organ rising from the deepest golden vein of the day; two or three bars of a chorus, played on a distant piano over and over again, melting in the sun on the white pavement, lost in the fire of high noon.

  Bruno Schulz

  Fire, Two, Piano

  Bruno Schulz (1963). “Cinnamon Shops: And Other Stories”

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• The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence.

  Annie Dillard

  Book, Wrestling, Writing

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• Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes.

  Tom Robbins

  Music, Sweet, Pain

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.143, Bantam

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• My instinct was always have your gun in your hand. Especially when you are telling somebody to do something. But, in fact, the police academy discourages this. They feel your gun should rarely, if ever, be brought out of its holster. Most certainly not when children are involved, which is exactly when I saw myself using my gun most often. A truant teenager loitering outside a movie theater is going to be far more motivated to return to school when he has the barrel of a .45 pressed against his cheek.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Children, Teenager, School

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• I never understood why you would ever feel the need to shoot the fish in the barrel. I mean, they're in a barrel, you've already caught them. The hard work's done, they can't escape. So if you want them dead, just drain the water out. Why bring guns into it?

  Craig Silvey

  Hard Work, Mean, Gun

  Craig Silvey (2010). “Jasper Jones”, p.208, Random House

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• I'm a barrel of monkeys, kid, though mostly I figure monkeys stuck in a barrel are just going to be pissed off.

  Nora Roberts

  Kids, Pissed Off, Monkeys

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• He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places. If he wanted to take a shot at it, he’d have to turn the barrel against his own temple.

  Joe Hill

  Mind, Firsts, Temples

  Joe Hill (2010). “Heart-Shaped Box”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer.

  Bob Beauprez

  Oil, Discovery, Europe

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• I think that presidents deserve to be questioned. Maybe irreverently, most of the time. Bring 'em down a size. You see a president, ask a question. You have one chance in the barrel. Don't blow it.

  Helen Thomas

  Blow, Thinking, President

  "Thank You, Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House" by Ray Richmond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 14, 2008.

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• Colorado's collective shale deposits contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 trillion barrels of oil. That's almost as much as the entire world's proven oil reserves!

  Bob Beauprez

  Oil, Colorado, World

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• Fate only picks on the cowards and quitters,
  So give 'em both barrels - and aim for the eyes.

  Grantland Rice

  Military, Eye, Fate

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• They wanna bury me im worried. Im loosin my mind look down the barrel of my nine and my visions blurry. Fallen to pieces am I guilty? I pray to the lord but his laws be unfortunate because im guilty.

  Tupac Shakur

  Thug, Law, Mind

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• [Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

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• As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.

  Kevin Keegan

  Sports, Gun, Bullets

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• During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Alcohol, Ulysses's Grant

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• I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Business, Water

  Talk with Wharton MBA students, October 2003.

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