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“My first official consulting job, therefore, was for a scrap metal dealer (he resented the term "junk dealer") in East Edmonton named Benny Sugarman.”

Firsts Jobs Term East Officials Metals Junk Dealer Scrap Consulting Edmonton Scrap Metal

Author:Preston Manning

“Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.”

People Age Found Refuse Valuable Oil Old Age Metals Old People Scrap Vitamins Scrap Metal

Book:Hungry hearts and other stories

Source: Hungry hearts and other stories

“That's where I live, a junkyard in a neighborhood of junkyards. We have three tractors from the 1940s and '50s, several old pickup trucks, and a pile of scrap metal.”

Three Neighborhood Metals Truck Scrap Pickups Tractors Pickup Trucks Junkyard Scrap Metal

Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell

“Grover wore his fake feet and his pants to pass as human. He wore a green rasta-style cap, because when it rained his curly hair flattened and you could just see the tips of his horns. His bright orange backpack was full of scrap metal and apples to snack on. In his pocket was a set of reed pipes his daddy goat had carved for him, even though he only knew two songs: Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 12 and Hilary Duff's "So Yesterday," both of which sounded pretty bad on reed pipes.”

Source: The lightning thief

“Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.”

Wealth Poverty Victory Gold Defeat Prosperity Poison Native Empires Metals Alchemy Scrap Implicit Scrap Metal

Book:Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

Source: Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

“An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is one who drives through an old decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.”

Life Persons Opportunity Challenges Wonderful Inspire Development Areas Towns Entrepreneur Metals Provoking Sculpture Housing Scrap Enterprising Decrepit Scrap Metal

Author:Jim Rohn

“This junkyard is an environmental nightmare, strewn with tree stumps, old tires, derelict vehicles, scrap metal and other waste. This owner may be failing to properly dispose of vehicle fluids and other contaminating chemical-laden trash, possibly imperiling groundwater and wells. He is junking the law as well as the environment.”

Wells May Law Environment Failing Tree Waste Environmental Nightmare Owners Chemicals Metals Vehicle Tire Trash Fluid Scrap Stumps Derelict Junkyard Groundwater Scrap Metal

Author:Richard Blumenthal

“An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.”

Persons Opportunity Areas Enterprising Scrap Metal

Author:Jim Rohn