Extracting Quotes

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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was… — Saint Augustine
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. — Henry Ward Beecher
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let… — Jonathan Swift
I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed research plans] because… — Hans Selye
I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting. — Nahum Goldmann
I have come to believe that extracting natural gas from shale using the newish technique called hydrofracking is the environmental issue of our time. And… — Sandra Steingraber
Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to… — Aimee Mann
I kind of have to be a master of cleaning, extracting and trusting my data before I do anything with it. — Scott Nicholson
The poor homosexuals -- they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS). — Pat Buchanan
Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business. — Jeff Goodell
Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules in the form… — Thomas Homer-Dixon
The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones,… — Christina Stead
Psychedelics are not flashlights into the chaos of the Freudian unconscious, they are tools for mathematically unpacking your mind into a higher dimensional space. In… — Terence McKenna
The slight variations in extracting procedure cause many of the amygdalin (Vitamin B-17, Laetrile) molecules to change to a form unknown to nature(:) isomers...There are… — Ernst T. Krebs
Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation. — Michael Korda
Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone. — Anton Chekhov
I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do with extracting intimate… — Oskar Kokoschka
I guess my biggest failure was not getting reelected. [The loss taught me] not to ever let American hostages be held for 444 days in… — Jimmy Carter
As you may know, I'm the co-founder and co-chairman of an asteroid company called Planetary Resources that is backed by a group of eight billionaires… — Peter Diamandis
We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return. — Sylvia Earle

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