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“I'm trying to make a primitive painting. I'm trying to summon the archaic. I want to enter into a primitive situation. This is my protest against the sensory deprivation that we experience, which is due to this tendency towards globalization, towards homogenization, towards the generic - a technological standard rather than an aesthetic standard. I'm mining history, trying to regenerate a pictorial situation that is more humanistic. It's not about commodification, it's not about fitting into some sort of corporate structure. It's opposed to that direction.”

Trying Situation Painting Protest Aesthetic Primitive Technological Globalization Fitting Mining Humanistic

Author:Philip Taaffe

“Today, a large part of Peru's revenues come from mining. Many big mining companies only pay income tax, but they extract minerals, they pollute the water. They don't give any form of compensation to the regions where those minerals are extracted and where they do the damage, forcing the state to help those regions. What my party Gana Peru is stating is that the mining companies will have to pay that compensation. That is called a royalty.”

Giving Helping Today Water Party Taxes Royalty Compensation Income Tax Mining

Author:Ollanta Humala

“At least I like to keep it the same. That's why I've got all the same friends. That's why I go back to Leeds as much as possible. I don't know if you know much about England, but Yorkshire is a very sobering place. In the North. It's very gritty. Old mining villages. And people don't really care about celebrities up there. And it's great. And that's why I get back there whenever I can. 'Cause it keeps me very grounded, and it keeps my life very normal, whatever that is.”

People Care Mining

Author:Matthew Lewis

“I was blown away when I figured out that none of the great integrative moves that I studied came as a result of starting with a blank sheet of paper - as many innovation coaches suggest. Integrative solutions came directly from mining the existing models for the best of their nuggets. So I never start with a blank sheet of paper anymore.”

Moving Solutions Innovation Coaches Mining

Author:Roger Martin

“Of course, an English aristocrat might have some contact with the staff downstairs and could adequately say a thing or two about inter-class dramas unfolding in the household. But something less parochial might be harder to come by. This is relevant because stories about the divisiveness of class are by definition stories that straddle class boundaries. A story about a miner in a mining town is not obviously one that speaks to the divisiveness of class. In other words, class doesn't just divide us in the world but it also divides us in the stories we're presented.”

World Speak Drama Boundaries Relevant Mining

Author:Zia Haider Rahman

“I think there are a lot of people out there that are speculating in the stock market. They have all kinds of tech stocks or social media stocks. If you want to gamble in the stock market, I would much rather gamble on a mining stock than a social media stock.”

People Thinking Kind Social Media All Kinds Mining

Author:Peter Schiff

“Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.”

Acting Tough Coal Tedious Mining Uranium Mining Coal Mining

Author:Johnny Knoxville

“Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.”

Company College Gold Bills Dollars Lawyer Billions Gates Possessed Stolen Mining Traders Dropouts Uranium Mining

Author:Imelda Marcos

“The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.”

Should Reality Bits Environment Cost Degrees Remains Oil Damage Expensive Gas Mining Gas Prices Incorporating Externalities Uranium Mining Market Failure

Author:Elon Musk

“I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.”

Thinking Should States Authority Manufacturing Mining Uranium Mining

Author:Rand Paul

“Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.”

Trying Government Bombs Federal Government Atomic Bomb Mining Colorado Uranium Purchasers Uranium Mining

Author:Tom Udall

“the fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal fashion angst, the Appalachian nation still sings about unemployment.”

Stills Whole Facts Nations Fashion Alternatives Unemployment Coal Angst Woody Mining Bards Coal Mining

Book:The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies Hicks and White Trash Becames America's Scapegoats

Source: The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies Hicks and White Trash Becames America's Scapegoats

“Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.”

Kind Art Said Earth Artist Art Is Variety Silver Mining Sparkling Uranium Mining

Author:Jane Urquhart

“Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.”

Thinking Way Art Reality Courses Way Of Thinking Mining

Book:On writers and writing

Source: On writers and writing

“To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.”

“Certainly I'm still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it's no coincidence that all three of my novels basically are about how people act in a time of catastrophe. Do they go to their best self or their worst self?”

People Thinking Stills Self Three Novel Worst Journalist Coincidence Catastrophe Mining Best Self

Author:Geraldine Brooks

“I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the cracks. It's small mining-- small mining. You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age.”

Men Way Should Age Young Fall Bits Memories Gold Dust Cracks Adam Dirt Mining Sifting Gold Dust

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.”

Dark Cities Sea Bed Spring Towns London Afternoon Chasing Mining City Of London North Sea

Book:Predator Cities x 4 and The Traction Codex

Source: Predator Cities x 4 and The Traction Codex

“Not exactly. You see, Portia and I think that the coal miner thing's very overdone. No one will remember you in that. And we both see it has our job to make District 12 tributes unforgettable,' says Cinna. I'll be naked for sure, I think. 'So rather than focus on the coal mining itself, we're going to focus on the coal,' says Cinna. Naked and covered in black dust, i think. 'And what do we do with coal? We burn it,' says Cinna. 'You're not afraid of fire, are you, Katniss?' He sees my expression and grins.”

“My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well.”

Wells Care Kids Young Death House Lost Community New York Husband Six Tough Raised Ran Grandma Mining Miners Upstate New York Uranium Mining Boarding House Tough Lady

Author:Steve Carell

“The stars are far brighter Than gems without measure, The moon is far whiter Than silver in treasure; The fire is more shining On hearth in the gloaming Than gold won by mining, So why go a-roaming? O! Tra-la-la-lally Come back to the Valley.”

Stars Fire Moon Gold Shining Treasure Silver Valleys Brighter Gems Mining Roaming Gloaming

Book:The Hobbit

Source: The Hobbit

“If there are questions that are unanswered by research, they will be answered by a strategy division, a data-mining group or someone else within the organization. We need to be more effective at collaborating with these groups.”

Ifs Needs Business Groups Research Organization Strategy Data Division Mining Collaborating Unanswered

Author:Stephen Jin-Woo Kim

“I simply go with what works. And what works is the healthy skepticism embodied in the scientific method. Believe me, if the Bible had ever been shown to be a rich source of scientific answers and enlightenment, we would be mining it daily for cosmic discovery.”

Ifs Believe Would Be Science Spirituality Religious Answers Rich Source Healthy Enlightenment Discovery Method Cosmic Believe In Me Skepticism Scientific Method Mining

Book:The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

Source: The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

“Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or stupidity, I do not know-as admitting that the fossil record includes no transitional forms. Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.”

Source: Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History

“A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other men call trifles. It is possible to refine the sense of time until an old shoe in the bunch grass or a pile of nineteenth century beer bottles in an abandoned mining town tolls in one's head like a hall clock.”

Men Eye Science Century Towns Shoes Bunch Beer Clock Grass Halls Bottles Abandoned Wounded Trifles Nineteenth Century Tolls Mining Old Shoes

Book:The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic

Source: The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic

“We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.”

People Littles Saws New York Mom Singing Towns Dancing My Mom Goodbye Bye Mining Reefs Singing And Dancing Bye Bye Bye Bye Birdie

Author:Margot Kidder

“The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity of human life enables us to contemplate it without dismay. It is not only in the great mountain ranges that the traces of this process are found. Great segments of the earth's crust have sunk hundreds, in some cases, even thousands, of feet deep, and not the slightest inequality of the surface remains to indicate the fracture; the different nature of the rocks and the discoveries made in mining alone reveal its presence. Time has levelled all.”

Source: The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde)

“Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.”

Energy Environment Missions Renewable Energy Mining Clean Energy Uranium Mining

Author:Stewart Udall

“The investment in our mining industry has been very positive for Australia but we need to be doing more if we want, as I do, more revenue for our defence - which I think is under-resourced - our police, our elderly, our hospitals, roads, infrastructure and communication, to be able to repay our debts and enable sustainable job opportunities for existing and future generations.”

“It must not be thought that it is ever possible to reach the interior earth by any perseverance in mining: both because the exterior earth is too thick, in comparison with human strength; and especially because of the intermediate waters, which would gush forth with greater impetus, the deeper the place in which their veins were first opened; and which would drown all miners.”

Firsts Humans Earth Science Water Greater Perseverance Deeper Comparison Thick Interiors Veins Exterior Mining Miners Impetus Human Strength

Author:Rene Descartes

“If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.”

Ifs Want Company One Thing Mines Birthday Reserves Daddy My Birthday Mining Uranium Mining

Author:Bindi Irwin

“Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.”

Littles Home Growing Up Growing Grew Grew Up My Family Towns Piano Coal Small Town Virginia Mining Coal Mining

Author:Jayma Mays

“Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be. I was proud when President Nixon ordered the mining of Haiphong Harbor, which we should have done long ago, because I think we're helping a brave little country defend herself against Communist invasion. That's what I tried to show in The Green Berets and I took plenty of abuse from the critics.”

“You can guarantee that mining uranium will lead to nuclear waste. You can't guarantee that uranium mining will not lead to nuclear weapons.”

Waste Weapons Nuclear Guarantees Nuclear Weapons Guarantees That Mining Uranium Nuclear Waste Uranium Mining

Author:Anthony Albanese

“The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty straight. We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.”

Humans Long Seems Running Earth Lines Human Beings Mountain Creatures Prison Population Torture Prisoner Warfare Civilians Bombing Mining Culmination

Author:Wendell Berry

“If one accepts the 24th and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions. If we take the Gospels seriously, how can we not see industrial warfare - with its inevitable massacre of innocents - as a most shocking perversion? By the standard of all scriptures, neglect of the poor, of widows and orphans, of the sick, the homeless, the insane, is an abominable perversion.”

“The joke is that U2's new record only looked like a virus. Enjoy mining bitcoins for me losers.”

Enjoy Records Jokes Loser Viruses Bitcoin Mining

Author:Thom Yorke

“My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.”

Father Our Lives Singing Advantage Managers Engineers His Love Mining

Author:James Black

“Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining.”

States Beautiful Built Arizona Mining Concise Uranium Uranium Mining

Author:Jan Brewer

“We played every bar, party, pub, hotel lounge, church hall, mining town - places that made Mad Max territory look like a Japanese garden.”

Looks Made Church Party Garden Towns Mad Bars Hotel Halls Territory Max Pubs Mining Mad Max Japanese Gardens

Author:Michael Hutchence

“Writing is hard for every last one of us—straight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.”

Thinking Men Writing Hard Lasts White Talking Mines Harder Coal White Man Mining Miners Coal Mining

Book:Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There

“The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining, or trade, but only the imagination and initiative of leaders, and the hardy industry of followers, can transform the possibilities into fact...Man, not the earth, makes civilization.”

“The fate of the soil system depends on society's willingness to intervene in the market place, and to forego some of the short-term benefits that accrue from 'mining' the soil so that soil quality and fertility can be maintained over the longer term.”

Term Quality Fate Depends Benefits Soil Willingness Short Term Mining Fertility

Book:Ecology and our endangered life-support systems

Source: Ecology and our endangered life-support systems

“I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.”

Love War Names Lost Losing Claims Medicine Fats Titles Fallen Hats Flats Mining Mules Bonnets Tucson

Author:Stephen Vincent Benet

“Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If i had to pay money to do it, I would do itIt's problematical. It's disapointing often. It's very challenging. It's frustrating as hell. It's extremely demanding and totally satisfying work. And if I wasn't doing this, I would have to do legitimate work for a living. There are guys out there really working for a living, cleaning streets or coal mining, teaching. Directing is playing. Acting.”

Ifs Jobs Guy Challenges Pay Acting Hell Nice Streets Teaching Satisfying Coal Cleaning Frustrating Best Job Mining Working For A Living Coal Mining Satisfying Work

Author:William Friedkin

“Expect URZ stock to perform well as mining begins at Nichols Ranch.”

Wells Mining

Author:David Talbot

“He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.”

Courses Boys Brother Dad Uncles Pits Mining Swagger Swag

Author:Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

“One cannot help asking sadly, why is love of gold more potent than love of souls? The number of men mining and prospecting for gold in Shantung is more than double the number of men representing Southern Baptists! What a lesson for Southern Baptists to ponder!”

Men Soul Helping Numbers Lessons Gold Asking Southern Pondering Representing Baptists Mining Southern Baptist Prospecting

Author:Lottie Moon

“Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.”

Saws Cold Died Village Only Time Mining Rolls Royce

Author:Brian Johnson

“This morning arrives a letter from my ancient silver-mining comrade, Calvin H. Higbie, a man whom I have not seen nor had communication with for forty-four years. . . . [Footnote: Roughing It is dedicated to Higbie.] . . . I shall allow myself the privilege of copying his punctuation and his spelling, for to me they are a part of the man. He is as honest as the day is long. He is utterly simple-minded and straightforward, and his spelling and his punctuation are as simple and honest as he is himself. He makes no apology for them, and no apology is needed.”

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