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• Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Perseverance, Jobs, Writing

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• The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Yield, Effort, Research

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• Is not Fire a Body heated so hot as to emit Light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than Fire? And what else is a burning Coal than red hot Wood?

  Isaac Newton

  Science, Fire, Light

  Sir Isaac Newton (1718). “Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light. ...”, p.316

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• Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket… Because I’m capping greenhouse gasses, coal power plants, natural gas…you name it…whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retro-fit their operations. That will cost money…they will pass that money on to the consumers.

  Barack Obama

  Names, Energy, Cost

  "Obama: Energy Prices Will Skyrocket Under My Cap and Trade Plan". www.newsbusters.org. November 2, 2008.

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• Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes.

  Blaise Cendrars

  Eye, Writing, Light

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• Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal? But coal has got environmental hazards to it, but there's-I'm convinced, and I know that we-technology can be developed so we can have zero-emissions coal-fired electricity plants.

  George W. Bush

  Zero, Knowledge, Science

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• This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey Davy's lantern, by which coals Are safely mined for in the mode he mentions, Tombuctoo travels, voyages to the Poles, Are ways to benefit mankind, as true, Perhaps, as shooting them at Waterloo.

  Lord Byron

  Science, Soul, Age

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• I have forgiven myself; I'll make a change. Once that forgiveness has taken place you can console yourself with the knowledge that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure. Less pressure is crystal, less than that is coal, less than that is fossilized leaves or plain dirt. Pressure can change you into something quite precious, quite wonderful, quote beautiful and extremely hard.

  Maya Angelou

  Beautiful, Taken, Dirt

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• We used to be a source of fuel; we are increasingly becoming a sink. These supplies of foreign liquid fuel are no doubt vital to our industry, but our ever-increasing dependence upon them ought to arouse serious and timely reflection. The scientific utilisation, by liquefaction, pulverisation and other processes, or our vast and magnificent deposits of coal, constitutes a national object of prime importance.

  Winston Churchill

  Reflection, Oil, Doubt

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• Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present sources stand in the ratio of a million to one, compared with any previous sources. The release of atomic energy will change the whole structure of society.

  Frederick Soddy

  Islands, Atomic Energy, Ratios

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• It is very different to make a practical system and to introduce it. A few experiments in the laboratory would prove the practicability of system long before it could be brought into general use. You can take a pipe and put a little coal in it, close it up, heat it and light the gas that comes out of the stem, but that is not introducing gas lighting. I'll bet that if it were discovered to-morrow in New York that gas could be made out of coal it would be at least five years before the system would be in general use.

  Thomas A. Edison

  New York, Science, Light

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• Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron frame of the hearth, the black cooking pots and pans and stoves. Was it a mourning? Was it protective coloration? Was it mere depression of the senses? No matter what the original color of the paleotechnic milieu might be it was soon reduced by reason of the soot and cinders that accompanied its activities, to its characteristic tones, grey, dirty-brown, black.

  Lewis Mumford

  Dirty, Heart, Science

  Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.163, University of Chicago Press

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• Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece of coal starts and finishes with its combustion, giving us light and heat. And that to me is Shakespeare.

  Peter Brook

  Past, Light, Giving

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• Writing is hard for every last one of us—straight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.45, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.

  Barack Obama

  Energy, Want, Plant

  "Audio: Obama Tells SF Chronicle He Will Bankrupt Coal Industry". www.newsbusters.org. November 2, 2008.

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• I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.

  Ann Romney

  Jobs, Dad, Kids

  Ann Romney's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.npr.org. August 28, 2012.

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• I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.

  Jules Verne

  Believe, Hydrogen Fuel, Oxygen

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Abandoned”, p.142, Jules Verne

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• People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Fear, Ignorance

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• To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

  Roald Dahl

  Black, Gold

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.19, Penguin

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• Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.

  Don Young

  Courage, Dust, Ice

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• My father and brothers were coal miners.

  Merle Travis

  Brother, Father, Coal Miners

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• I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

  Harrison Ford

  Boyfriend, Dad, Father

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• The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

  Bill Vaughan

  Government, Shutting Down, Nuclear

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• I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only you'd come back to me. To feel you at my side, wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied.

  Jeff Buckley

  Lying, Hair, Black

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• For over 15 years, through the clean coal programs of the Department of Energy, the Federal Government has been a solid partner, working jointly with private companies and the states to develop and demonstrate a new generation of environmentally clean technology using coal.

  Tim Holden

  Technology, Government, Years

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