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• I simply go with what works. And what works is the healthy skepticism embodied in the scientific method. Believe me, if the Bible had ever been shown to be a rich source of scientific answers and enlightenment, we would be mining it daily for cosmic discovery.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Religious, Believe, Science

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2000). “The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, Doubleday Books

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• We often sometimes forget that- prior to the invention of removable pipe- there really were no English Bibles. We have treasures, we have Bibles in every size and shape and color. But there's a failure to recognize what's contained inside the cover of the Bible. We grow apathetic, and I think that the issue is reacting to the Word of God. Not just carrying, but get back into the Word of God and then get the Word of God into us. It's all about mining the scripture, memorizing the scripture, and meditating with our scripture.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Thinking, Issues, Color

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• It must not be thought that it is ever possible to reach the interior earth by any perseverance in mining: both because the exterior earth is too thick, in comparison with human strength; and especially because of the intermediate waters, which would gush forth with greater impetus, the deeper the place in which their veins were first opened; and which would drown all miners.

  Rene Descartes

  Perseverance, Science, Water

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• The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity of human life enables us to contemplate it without dismay. It is not only in the great mountain ranges that the traces of this process are found. Great segments of the earth's crust have sunk hundreds, in some cases, even thousands, of feet deep, and not the slightest inequality of the surface remains to indicate the fracture; the different nature of the rocks and the discoveries made in mining alone reveal its presence. Time has levelled all.

  Eduard Suess

  Life, Science, Mountain Ranges

  Eduard Suess (1904). “The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde)”

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• claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the "necessary" function of creating flat land for development To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe.

  Joseph Conrad

  Land, Practice, Creating

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• The central industry of modern civilisation, tending, because of its control over materials, to spread into and ultimately incorporate older industries such as mining, smelting, oil- refining, textiles, rubber, building, and even agriculture in respect to fertilizers and food processing.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Oil, Agriculture, Textiles

  John Desmond Bernal (1965). “Science in history”

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• Well I'm not convinced that expanding uranium mining is in the best interests of the country and the best interests of its environment.

  Peter Garrett

  Country, Uranium Mining, Environment

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• How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry-between say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and chemical manufacturing? The difference seems to be only that in war the victimization of humans is directly intentional and in industry it is "accepted" as a "trade-off." Were the catastrophes of Love Canal, Bhopal, Chernobyl, and the Exxon Valdez episodes of war or of peace? They were in fact, peacetime acts of aggression, intentional to the extent that the risks were known and ignored.

  Wendell Berry

  War, Differences, Risk

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• Not exactly. You see, Portia and I think that the coal miner thing's very overdone. No one will remember you in that. And we both see it has our job to make District 12 tributes unforgettable,' says Cinna. I'll be naked for sure, I think. 'So rather than focus on the coal mining itself, we're going to focus on the coal,' says Cinna. Naked and covered in black dust, i think. 'And what do we do with coal? We burn it,' says Cinna. 'You're not afraid of fire, are you, Katniss?' He sees my expression and grins.

  Suzanne Collins

  Jobs, Thinking, Fire

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• My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.

  James Black

  Father, Singing, His Love

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• Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be. I was proud when President Nixon ordered the mining of Haiphong Harbor, which we should have done long ago, because I think we're helping a brave little country defend herself against Communist invasion. That's what I tried to show in The Green Berets and I took plenty of abuse from the critics.

  John Wayne

  Country, Thinking, Long Ago

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• My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening fast bowler - to me he was a gorgeously heroic man. He helped form a union and closed down the Barnsley seam because it was seeping gas, and saved many, many lives.

  Brian Blessed

  Team, Father, Men

  "My family values: Brian Blessed". Interview with Chris Hall, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2010.

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• Mining in BC's Sacred Headwaters is like drilling for oil in the Sistine Chapel

  Wade Davis

  Oil, Sacred, Chapel

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• Actual creativeness is a matter of moments. One has to piece together the minute grains to make a lump. And it is so easy to miss the momentary flashes, it is like sluicing in placer mining. He who lets the flakes float by has nothing to show for his trouble.

  Eric Hoffer

  Missing, Together, Pieces

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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• I'm really quite hard to scare so it was about mining times when I have jumped, and what creeps me out.

  Susan Hill

  Scare, Creeps, Hard

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• There are now more than 4,000 places in the sea around the world that have some kind of protection. The bad news: You have to look hard to find them. What you find instead is destructive fishing, mining, gas and oil exploration.

  Sylvia Earle

  Sea, Fishing, Oil

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Programming today is the opposite of diamond mining. In diamond mining you dig up a lot of dirt to find a small bit of value. With programming you start with the value, the real intention, and bury it in a bunch of dirt.

  Charles Simonyi

  Real, Opposites, Today

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• Native people - about two-thirds of the uranium in the United States is on indigenous lands. On a worldwide scale, about 70 percent of the uranium is either in Aboriginal lands in Australia or up in the Subarctic of Canada, where native people are still fighting uranium mining.

  Winona LaDuke

  Fighting, Australia, Land

  "Native American Activist Winona LaDuke on Use of 'Geronimo' as Code for Osama bin Laden: 'The Continuation of the Wars Against Indigenous People'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, www.democracynow.org. May 6, 2011.

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• The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for information about areas of life we don't know - Nigeria, South Africa, the American army, a coal-mining village, coteries in Chelsea, etc. We read to find out what is going on. One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel - the quality of philosophy.

  Doris Lessing

  Philosophy, Army, Should Have

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.

  Bindi Irwin

  Birthday, Uranium Mining, Daddy

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• The joke is that U2's new record only looked like a virus. Enjoy mining bitcoins for me losers.

  Thom Yorke

  Viruses, Records, Bitcoin

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• We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.

  Margot Kidder

  Mom, Goodbye, New York

  "No kidding" by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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• Every time you get a script and you have a scene, you start mining out how many layers there are within it.

  Linus Roache

  Layers, Scripts, Scene

  "Interview: Linus Roache discusses his ‘Vikings’ King and his ‘Blacklist’ Kingmaker". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. April 3, 2014.

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• There are always advancements that are happening with mining technology and the ability to detect gases or methane within the mine. Those things are moving forward every day.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Moving, Technology, Advancement

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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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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