Mining Quotes
97 quotes by 91 authors
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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…
— Ariel Durant
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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…
— Eugene Odum
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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.…
— William Friedkin
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Expect URZ stock to perform well as mining begins at Nichols Ranch.
— David Talbot
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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…
— Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn
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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…
— Lottie Moon
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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.
— Brian Johnson
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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…
— Mark Twain
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Though they control scores of industrial, commercial, mining and tourist corporations, not one bears the name Rothschild. Being private partnerships, the family houses never need…
— Frederic Morton
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Advertising isnt just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells…
— Jan Koum
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Writing is like mining for gold hidden in the hillsides of your mind.
— David Baboulene
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Women need the education and training, particularly since more and more women are heads of their households, as much or more than anybody else...And it's…
— John McCain
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I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a…
— Rube Goldberg
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The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual revision…
— Russell Kirk
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Because the public lands belong to all Americans, this 1872 Mining Act should be repealed...
— Richard M. Nixon
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Rigel, Betelgeuse, and Orion. There was no finer church, no finer choir, than the stars speaking in silence to the many consumptives silently condemned, a…
— Mark Helprin
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There's a lot of money to be made by strip-mining and drilling the dirtiest oil on the planet. But why should the rest of us…
— Robert Redford
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My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep sea…
— Alexander Agassiz
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I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pressures of relentless deadlines or reader…
— Grant Morrison
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Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening,…
— Ann Macbeth
Who Wrote These Mining Quotes
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