Coal Quotes - Page 20

• In short, what the living wage is really about is not living standards, or even economics, but morality. Its advocates are basically opposed to the idea that wages are a market price-determined by supply and demand, the same as the price of apples or coal. And it is for that reason, rather than the practical details, that the broader political movement of which the demand for a living wage is the leading edge is ultimately doomed to failure: For the amorality of the market economy is part of its essence, and cannot be legislated away.

  Paul Krugman

  Essence, Ideas, Apples

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• I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

  David Bailey

  War, Eight, Two

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• Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul. With a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal. Frosty the snowman is a fairy tale they say. He was made of snow but the children know how he came to life one day.

  Jack Nelson

  Christmas, Children, Eye

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• Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time

  Elon Musk

  Glasses, Hot, Eating

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• The local-tone is the intrinsic value of a thing - excluding any effects of light. The local-tone of a common pearl is very nearly white; that of a lump of coal, nearly black.

  Nathan Goldstein

  Light, White, Black

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• My solution would be to bridge the skills gap, such as coal to gas training, you have to give people a sense of hope that they have the tools to be able to diversify and stay in the community where they wish to live.

  Shelley Moore Capito

  Bridges, Skills, People

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• I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit, and I see a link between that process and the stock-market frenzy which scorns long-term investments-genuine savings-in favor of quick turnovers and speculative bubbles whose inevitable bursting leaves insiders with stuffed pockets and millions of small stockholders, pensioners, and employees out of work, out of luck, and out of hope.

  Bill Moyers

  Sacrifice, Rivers, Work Out

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• Darren Fletcher is the type of player who would walk over hot coals to play for his country, and he has done

  Andy Gray

  Country, Player, Hot

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• We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for example, has found that coal miners in Appalachia costs the region five times more in premature deaths, including from cancer, than it provides to the region in jobs, taxes, and economic benefits. In California, the production and use of hazardous chemicals cost the state $2.6 billion in 2004 alone in lost wages and health-care expenses to treat workers and children with pollution-linked diseases.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Jobs, Children, Cancer

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• My father was a mailman. His father was a coal miner. My mother's mother could barely speak English. And their son today stands on this podium in the great state of Ohio not only as the governor, but a candidate for president of the United States.I do believe in miracles.I've had a lot of elections. But my elections are really not about campaigns. I tell my people that these are about a movement.A movement to do things like provide economic growth. And a movement not to let anybody be behind.

  John Kasich

  Mother, Father, Believe

  GOP Debate, www.cbsnews.com. August 07, 2015.

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• There's no free lunch. If you want an industrial economy, you need energy. If you want energy, it will produce pollution. You can have it in two forms. You can have it dissipated in the atmosphere - like carbon dioxide - which then you cannot recover, or you can have the waste concentrated in one small space like nuclear. That is far easier to deal with. The idea that you can be able to create renewable energy at a price anywhere near the current price for oil or gas or coal is a fantasy.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Ideas, Two, Lunch

  "'Obama Is Average'". Interview with Klaus Brinkbäumer and Gregor-Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. October 26, 2009.

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• Tony Abbott might think coal's good for humanity, of course it was an important driver in the story of the Australian nation. But when we're talking about the 21st Century and those industries that are gonna take us forward, it won't be coal.

  Richard Di Natale

  Thinking, Talking, Humanity

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Wind has the potential to produce many, many more jobs per kilowatt hour than coal. But the coal industry has tremendous political clout on Capitol Hill because of its alliance with the railroads... and with coal-burning utilities...

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Jobs, Wind, Political

  "The Last Mountain". Interview with Nobuhiro Hosoki, hosokinema.com. June 3, 2011.

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• I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you, preserved a silence which their individuality as living things made all the more striking, and warmed themselves in the heat of a glowing coal fire.

  Marcel Proust

  Orchids, Fire, Glowing

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.124, Modern Library

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• Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Coal Miners, Use, Dear

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.102, Rajpal & Sons

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• The coal plants that will be built from 2005 to 2030 will release as much carbon dioxide as all of the coal burned since the industrial revolution more than two centuries ago.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Two, Climate, Revolution

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• Would you rather see a super soldier battling Nazis or something more serious? Or lesbians down a coal mine? Generally, the films are engaging in the same way as the comics are. It's no coincidence that the biggest movies are genre-related, whether it's Lord of the Rings or comic books.

  Mark Millar

  Book, Soldier, Way

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as "black diamonds." Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property.

  Joseph Conrad

  Book, Believe, People

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Victory”, Joseph Conrad

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• I didn't even watch the soaps when I was in them because it's like a coal miner coming home and staring at the coal scuttle - I was never a great lover of watching myself act.

  Ross Kemp

  Home, Coal Miners, Great Love

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• I don't know (and I guess I never will while I'm alive) just how thick my old skull is, but I do know that it is pretty thick, or it would have been cracked many years ago, for I have been struck some terrible blows on my head with iron dray-pins, pokers, clubs, stone-coal, and bowlders, which would have split any man's skull wide open unless it was pretty thick. Doctors have often told me that my skull was nearly an inch in thickness over my forehead.

  George Devol

  Men, Blow, Iron

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• The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth.

  Robert Pollin

  Yield, Oil, Earth

  Robert Pollin (2015). “Greening the Global Economy”, p.121, MIT Press

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• Gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hat pin.

  Mary Heaton Vorse

  Russia, Gathering, News

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• The fossil fuel industry will inevitably have to experience major cutbacks and, over the longer term, near-total demise. There is simply no choice in the matter if we believe the research produced by climate scientists. The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth.

  Robert Pollin

  Believe, Yield, Oil

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• Having therefore no foreign establishments, either colonial or military, the ships of war of the United States, in war, will be like land birds, unable to fly far from their own shores. To provide resting places for them, where they can coal and repair, would be one of the first duties of a government proposing to itself the development of the power of the nation at sea.

  Alfred Thayer Mahan

  Military, War, Government

  Alfred Thayer Mahan (2010). “Sea Power and World History: 1660-1783”, p.48, Fireship Press

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• I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday).

  Billy Joe Shaver

  Someday, Diamond, Chunks

  Song: I'm Just An Old Chunk Of Coal

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