Iron Ore Quotes

• Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

  Mark Twain

  Educational, Inspiration, Iron

  Mark Twain (2016). “What Is Man? And Other Essays”, p.6, Xist Publishing

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• Through every trial we grow. All suffering we experience has a meaning. Though it seems very cruel, it is like the fire that smelts the iron ore: the steel that emerges from that furnace is beautifully strong, useful for many purposes.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Strong, Fire, Suffering

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• If you want to build a car, you don't slap a bunch of iron ore, some sand, a rubber tree, and a couple of cows together and call it good

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Couple, Iron, Car

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• Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.

  Richard Florida

  Work, Creativity, Iron

  Richard Florida (2014). “The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded”, p.8, Basic Books

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• When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

  Jackson Pollock

  Mean, Artist, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Port Talbot is a steel town, where everything is covered with gray iron ore dust.  Even the beach is completely littered with dust, it's just black.  The sun was setting, and it was quite beautiful.  The contrast was extraordinary, I had this image of a guy sitting there on this dingy beach with a portable radio, tuning in these strange Latin escapist songs like 'Brazil.'  The music transported him somehow and made his world less gray.

  Terry Gilliam

  Beautiful, Song, Beach

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• We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Iron, Steel

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• [Pitchblende] consists of a peculiar, distinct, metallic substance. Therefore its former denominations, Pechblende, pitch-iron-ore, &c. are no longer applicable, and must be supplied by another more appropriate name. I have chosen that of Uranium, as a kind of memorial, that the chemical discovery of this new metal happened in the period of astronomical discovery of the new planet Uranus.

  Martin Heinrich Klaproth

  Science, Discovery, Names

  "Analytical Essays towards Promoting the Chemical Knowledge of Mineral Substances" by Martin Heinrich Klaproth, London: Cadell & Davies, 1801.

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• We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which were cooked in vats, long complex derivatives of urine which we called plastic. They had no odor of the living, ... their touch was alien to nature. ... [They proliferated] like the matastases of cancer cells.

  Norman Mailer

  Life, Nature, Cancer

  Norman Mailer (1968). “The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations”

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• You see, my friends...you begin to ask the questions, 'Who owns the oil?' You begin to ask the question, 'Who owns the iron ore?' You begin to ask the question, 'Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that is two-thirds water?'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Two, Iron, Oil

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