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“The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalised the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production.”

America Black Mines Discovery Gold Skins Population Productions Eras Dawn Silver Capitalist Hunting Enslavement Aboriginal Rosy Gold And Silver Black Skin

Book:Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production

Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production

“When you are losing it can seem like there is a black cloud following you around, but like they say there is a silver lining in every cloud.”

Seems Black Failure Losing Clouds Following Silver Black Clouds

Author:Mario Andretti

“Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it, you must climb down into the slime to do so. White cloaks show the dirt more thank black, and silver tarnishes.”

Ifs Want Shows Fighting Evil Black White Climbs Silver Dirt Pits Cloaks Slime

Book:The King Beyond The Gate

Source: The King Beyond The Gate

“A black-crowned night heron stood on an apron of wet sand, looking across the channel. The feather plume at the back of his head lifted in a faint breeze. Out there the channel churned its cyclonic eddies counterclockwise. Schools of anchovies, halibut, and sea bass came and went: silver flashes, small storms that well up from the inside of the sea but are short-lived, like lightning.”

Wells School Night Black Sea Ocean Storm Sand Silver Wet Flash Lightning Breeze Feathers Bass Short Lived Aprons Herons Halibut

Book:A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning

Source: A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning

“The rains are rhythmic, coming religiously in the afternoons (after lunch has been eaten but before tea, so that the nights are washed clean-black with bright pinpoints of silver starlight hanging over a restless, grateful earth).”

Has Beens Earth Night Black Rain Grateful Clean Tea Silver Lunch Afternoon Restless Starlight

Book:Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: Picador Classic

Source: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: Picador Classic

“The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.”

People May Home Black Silver Los Angeles Raiders

Author:Ice Cube

“Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And for me, I just have such a love of the tactile and sensuous quality of a black and white silver gelatin print.”

Needs Black White Levels Quality Photography Photographer Silver Print Black And White Whatever It Takes Sensuous Tactile Gelatin

Author:John Sexton