Coal Quotes - Page 13

• Even coal shimmers in the light

  Jocelyn Murray

  Light, Shimmer

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• Leave the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole.

  Nnimmo Bassey

  Oil, Soil, Holes

  "Naomi Klein kick-starts the activism at Copenhagen with call for disobedience" by Bibi van der Zee, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2009.

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• A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job

  Thomas A. Edison

  Jobs, Pieces, Stuck

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• Since time immemorial it had been the custom before a sea battle for the men to wash and don clean clothes in case of being wounded. This was all the more necessary under these circumstances, as many of them were still covered with coal dust.

  Richard Hough

  Men, Dust, Sea

  Richard Hough (2003). “Naval Battles of the Twentieth Century”, p.33, The Overlook Press

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• By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Angel, Men, Sharks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.74, Harvard University Press

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• What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wall, House, Graffiti

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• Chinese emissions are a problem not just for its own people but also for the world. It has now overtaken the U.S. as the biggest carbon emitter; most of the coal that is burned anywhere on Earth is burned in China.

  James Fallows

  People, Chinese, World

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• No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.

  Bernard Malamud

  Anger, Hot, Use

  Bernard Malamud (2014). “The Fixer”, p.59, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

  John Major

  Numbers, Hot, Pits

  "Major threatens general election if he fails to win Maastricht vote". "The Sunday Times" Newspaper, October 25, 1992.

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• There are jobs to be created on both sides of the climate argument. Whether we are investing in oil or sun, coal or wind, gas or algae, the economy will be stimulated by the investment. The economy, unlike each of us, is not swayed by ideology.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Jobs, Wind, Oil

  "Climate Choice" by Evangeline Lilly, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2013.

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• The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

  Jeff Goodell

  Political, Economy, Enormous

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• Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.

  Jeff Goodell

  Fighting, Electric Power, Inspiring Others

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• Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.

  Jeff Goodell

  China, Wells, Plentiful

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• For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs.

  Jeff Goodell

  Jobs, Gone, Appalachia

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• In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

  Jeff Goodell

  Energy, Events, World

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• It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.

  Jeff Goodell

  Virginia, America, Too Late

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• Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

  Jeff Goodell

  Presidential, Political, Campaigns

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• Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.

  Jeff Goodell

  Climate, Facts, Study

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• Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.

  Jeff Goodell

  Sexy, Mean, Issues

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• Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Flames, Arrows

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.145

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• Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

  Bob Dylan

  Poetry, Soul, Burning

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.480, Simon and Schuster

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• We simply have to transition from an economy based almost exclusively on oil and coal and natural gas to one that's far more diversified, that uses solar energy, and wind energy, and the power of the tides, and bio-mass energy, and eventually, develops hydrogen.

  William J. Clinton

  Wind, Oil, Use

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If but a few live coals are found in a mountain of ashes, no one should be disappointed. Genius is a rare quality in this world, and there is no reason why it should be more ubiquitous among Blacks than Whites.

  Wallace Thurman

  Quality, Mountain, Ashes

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• Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.

  Zane Grey

  Writing, Blood, Sweat

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• Doing the same things you did when the economy was good is not good enough. You will have to put more coals on the fire in a poor economy to get the same heat you received in a good economy. You must give more energy, more thought, more service, and get into positive thinking material more frequently. Become more selective about who you spend time with. Love a little more, hate a little less. Think about it. You can progressively move on an upward path toward any goal. The choice is yours as to who or what controls you!

  Bob Proctor

  Hate, Moving, Positive Thinking

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Feb 18, 2012

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