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

Black Fire Red Despite Burning Veins Filling Gloves Powder Asbestos

Author:Anne Sexton

“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.”

Knows Today Turns Asks Given Environment Modern Humility Degrees Threat Environmental Yesterday Triumph Chemistry Pollution Asbestos

Author:Denis Hayes

“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.”

World Way Humor Funny Dies Race Cities Sky New York Exciting Yeah Shooting New York City Construction Crash Riot Places In The World Subway Sidewalk Cranes Blowing Up Asbestos Race Riots

Author:Denis Leary

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

Made Funny Wish Comedy Asbestos

Author:David Mitchell

“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.”

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

Thinking Should Warm Hearted Vests Warm Hearted Asbestos

Book:Expecting Jeeves

Source: Expecting Jeeves

“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.”

May Soul Spirit Fire Bears Oil My Soul Ministers Flames Fuel Dread Godly Transient Short Life Short Lived Asbestos

Author:Jim Elliot

“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.”

Success Careers Hell Successful Dog Cat Orthodox Preacher Chasing Celluloid Asbestos

Book:A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard

“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'.”

Soul Play Body Earth Pain Lying Hell Forever Fire Blood Feet Judgment Devil Tunes Strings Nerves Agony Twins Veins Lament Sweating Diabolical Asbestos

Author:Charles Spurgeon

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

Bad Day Spit Asbestos

Author:Earl Sweatshirt

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

May Spirit Oil Dread Asbestos

Author:Jim Elliot

“...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.”

“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”

Fantasy Materials Arms Length Wrapping Asbestos

Book:Inter Views: Conversations With Laura Pozzp on Psychotherapy, Biography, Love, Soul, Dreams, Work, Imagination and the State of the Culture

Source: Inter Views: Conversations With Laura Pozzp on Psychotherapy, Biography, Love, Soul, Dreams, Work, Imagination and the State of the Culture

“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.”

People Shows Water Levels Results Quality Air Conditions New York Drink Safe Areas Drinking Breathe Glad Substance Exposed Pentagon Drinking Water Monitoring Air Quality Asbestos

Author:Christine Todd Whitman

“The asbestos problem impacts everyone.”

Problem Impact Asbestos

Author:John Engler