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See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He burns, too, the purest of… — Herman Melville
I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait til oil and… — Thomas A. Edison
Supplements are very important, especially a multiple vitamin. The American Medical Association now says we should take one. And fish oil because it has omega… — Daniel Amen
God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the… — George MacDonald
We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The oil industry is a stunning example of how science, technology, and mass production can divert an entire group of companies from their main task.… — Theodore Levitt
We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years. We're told cars… — P.J. O'Rourke
Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one of a number… — Charles Kettering
Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the Exxon Valdez accident… — Jeremy Clarkson
Breaking America's oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes. — Colman McCarthy
The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher. — Michael Eisner
As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of… — Archibald MacLeish
The simple fact is that the world is not paying for the services the forests provide. At the moment, they are worth more dead than… — Prince Charles
Saudi Arabian oil production is at or very near its peak sustainable volume (if it did not, in fact peak almost 25 years ago), and… — Matthew Simmons
[The report 'World Energy Outlook 2006'] reveals that the energy future we are facing today, based on projections of current trends, is dirty, insecure and… — Claude Mandil
In my humble opinion, we should now have reached peak oil. So it is high time to close this critical chapter in the history of… — Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari
We've run out of good projects. This is not a money issue... If these oil companies had fantastic projects, they'd be out there [developing new… — Matthew Simmons
Through our inattention, we have wasted the years that we might have used to prepare for lessened oil supplies. The next ten years are critical. — Kenneth S. Deffeyes
...More important than the deficit, more important then healthcare-more important than anything-we have got to do something about our energy strategy. Because if we permit… — William J. Clinton
We are not good at recognizing distant threats even if their probability is 100%. Society ignoring [peak oil] is like the people of Pompeii ignoring… — James R. Schlesinger
Until you change the way money works, you change nothing. — Michael Ruppert
In discussing the state of the atmosphere following a nuclear exchange, we point especially to the effects of the many fires that would be ignited… — Unknown Author
Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats — Honore de Balzac
Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy. — Rodrigo Rato
I detest . . . anything over-cooked, over-herbed, over-sauced, over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table as long as there is honest… — Sybille Bedford

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