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“Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the danger signs in coal mines and in derivatives trading and in deep-sea oil wells.”

Wells Seems Sea Missing Danger Example Mines Oil Agency Coal Trading Strengthening Derivatives Deep Sea

Book:No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

Source: No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

“You oil field workers, come and listen to me I'm goin' to tell you a story about old John D. That company union made a fool out of me. That company union don't charge no dues It leaves you a-singing them Rockefeller blues. That company union made a fool out of me. Takes that good ole C.I.O., boys To keep that oil a-rollin', rollin' over the sea. Takes that good ole C.I.O., boys To keep that oil a-rollin' over the sea.”

Made Stories Energy Company Boys Sea Fields Fool Singing Unions Workers Dues Oil Alternatives Listen To Me Oil Field

Author:Woody Guthrie

“Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves?”

Doe Force Causes Clear Sea Wind Calm Wave Oil Smooth Pouring Slipping Navigation

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)

“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

“Hail, Holy Day! the blessing from above Brightens thy presence like a smile of love, Smoothing, like oil upon a stormy sea, The roughest waves of human destiny Cheering the good, and to the poor oppress'd Bearing the promise of their heavenly rest.”

Humans Poor Destiny Sea Holy Promise Blessing Wave Oil Heavenly Cheer Sabbath Hail Stormy Holy Days Stormy Seas

Book:Dictionary of poetical quotations

Source: Dictionary of poetical quotations

“Have you been following the big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? Or as we call it now, the Dead Sea.”

Bigs Sea Following Oil Mexico Spills Oil Spill Gulf Of Mexico Big Oil

Author:David Letterman

“The intellectual is always showing off, the lover is always getting lost. The intellectual runs away. afraid of drowning; the whole business of love is to drown in the sea. Intellectuals plan their repose; lovers are ashamed to rest. The lover is always alone. even surrounded by people; like water and oil, he remains apart. The man who goes to the trouble of giving advice to a lover get nothing. He's mocked by passion. Love is like musk. It attracts attention. Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.”

Source: Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey

“We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys. We can turn the most luxuriant forests into throw-away paper products. We can tear apart the great grass cover of the western plains and pour toxic chemicals into the soil and pesticides onto the fields until the soil is dead and blows away in the wind. We can pollute the air with acids, the rivers with sewage, the seas with oil - all this in a kind of intoxication with our power for devastation at an order of magnitude beyond all reckoning.”

“There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald - all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil.”

Together Fire Sea Color Green Shining Unions Incredibles Oil Brilliant Painter Burning Flames Jewels Purple Rivals Jewelry Splendor Gems Rubies Emeralds Opal Amethyst Jewelry Boxes

Author:Pliny the Elder

“An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.”

Mind Heaven Attitude Sea Goodness Oil Weather Smooth Precious Gifts Good Nature Good Weather

Book:Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

Source: Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

“We need a firm cap on carbon emissions from fossil fuels. No coal, oil, or gas could enter the economy until the buyer had a permit. All permits would be auctioned by the federal government, and the number of permits auctioned would be decreased by three percent per year. Permits could be traded, but they could not be created out of whole cloth by companies that plant forests or dump iron filings at sea.”

“There are now more than 4,000 places in the sea around the world that have some kind of protection. The bad news: You have to look hard to find them. What you find instead is destructive fishing, mining, gas and oil exploration.”

World Looks Kind Hard Sea News Protection Oil Around The World Destructive Gas Fishing Exploration Bad News Mining

Author:Sylvia Earle

“Oil platforms are a technology for floating permanently on the high seas, and cruise ships are a technology for self-governance on the high seas, and if you combine these two technologies, imagine cruise ships that never dock but float permanently. Imagine if they were 10 times as big. Imagine if they were modular and could move about and you could choose the neighbours you wanted to live with.”

Ifs Two Self Bigs Wanted Moving Technology Imagine Sea Oil Ships Platforms Floating Floats Governance Neighbour Cruise Docks Cruise Ships High Seas

Author:Joe Quirk

“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