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“If you want to see the acceptable face of capitalism, go out to an oil rig in the North Sea.”

Ifs Want Faces Sea Capitalism Oil Acceptable Rigs North Sea

Author:William Randolph Hearst

“Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.”

Source: The Art Spirit

“In my judgment, if we had pursued this course, the zones would have been of short duration. England would have been compelled to take her mines out of the North Sea in order to get any supplies from our country.”

Ifs Has Beens Country Order Courses Sea Mines Judgment England Our Country Zone Compelled Pursued Supplies Duration North Sea

Author:George W. Norris

“How amazing that the language of a few thousand savages living on a fog-encrusted island in the North Sea should become the language of the world.”

World Should Language Sea Thousand Islands Savages Fog Living On North Sea

Author:Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley

“Suffolk has something more than the coziness of Kent and Surrey. There is a hint of wildness in its tamed beauty, and the tang of the North Sea is never far away.”

Sea Far Away Hints Wildness Tamed Kent North Sea Surrey

Author:Patricia Moyes

“Imagine if for years your habit is to use the phone when you're having a massage on the bed, even one minute before going out to train? For 25 days I accepted this, because my first priority was to work on the field. However, I've said that from now if someone comes inside with a mobile phone, even in their bag, I'll throw it in the North Sea. They're banned.”

Ifs Years Firsts Said Use Imagine Sea Minutes Fields Habit Bed Train Phones Accepted Priorities Bags Going Out Mobile Banned Massage One Minute Mobile Phones North Sea

Author:Paolo Di Canio

“Thankfully, due to the United Kingdom and the commitment of the Westminster government we are able to ensure that money brought in, whether it be from the City of London or from North Sea oil, can be pooled and directed to wherever it is needed most.”

Government Able United Cities Sea Needed Commitment Dues Oil London Kingdoms United Kingdom Westminster City Of London North Sea

Author:Iain Duncan Smith

“The sun's champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of the grass, covered by a raspberry umbrella. Only their feet and a little bit of lace could be seen. In the magnificent universe beneath the raspberry umbrella, with closed eyes, they drank in the sparkling madness. 'Extra! Extra! Zeppelins over the North Sea at 3 o'clock.' But under the umbrella, in the raspberry universe, they were immortal. What did it matter that in another far-away universe people would be killing each other?”

“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

“When I was a child I truly loved: Unthinking love as calm and deep As the North Sea. But I have lived, And now I do not sleep.”

Children Sleep Sea Calm North Sea

Book:Grendel

Source: Grendel

“The momentum of Asia's economic development is already generating massive pressures for the exploration and exploitation of new sources of energy and the Central Asian region and the Caspian Sea basin are known to contain reserves of natural gas and oil that dwarf those of Kuwait, the Gulf of Mexico, or the North Sea.”

Source: The Grand Chessboard

“There are many disturbing news. We believe that the production of conventional petroleum reached peak oil already in 2006. The oil fields in the North Sea and the US are collapsing ... time is running out.”

Believe Running Energy Sea Fields News Productions Oil Conventional Disturbing Petroleum Time Is Running Out Time Running Out Peak Oil Oil Field North Sea

Author:Fatih Birol

“The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.”

War History Sea Glory Discretion Rendezvous North Sea

Author:Barbara Tuchman

“The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line.”

Stills Running Lines Sea Ocean Productions North Sea

Author:Daniel Yergin

“Britain has squandered its windfall of natural resources from North Sea oil and gas. Instead of prudently investing the 'unearned income' from nature, to build a safe, clean and green energy supply for the nation, we face unnecessary shortages. But there is still a chance to put the proceeds from liquidating our fossil fuel assets to better and more appropriate use. Instead of oil companies profiteering from climate change and oil depletion, a windfall tax could establish an Oil Legacy Fund to pay for Britain's urgent transition to a sustainable, decentralised energy system”

“The only real river I knew was hardly more than a brook. It spilled through a tumbledown mill at the bottom of our road, opened into a little trouty pool, then ran on through water meadows over graveled shallows into Fakenham [England], where it slowed and deepened, gathering strength for the long drifts across muddy flatlands to Norwich and the North Sea.”

Littles Long Real Water Sea Rivers England Bottom Ran Pool Gathering Brooks Meadows Mills Muddy Norwich North Sea

Author:Jonathan Raban