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Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.


Herbert Gold


#boils #brought #careers #demands #edge

The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.


Bono


#brought #coal #cost #environment #extraction

Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.


J. Irwin Miller


#equal #extract #indulge #live #money

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.


Nadine Gordimer


#answerable #comes #creative #creative act #eden

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.


Henry Ward Beecher


#being #being happy #common #common things #extracting

It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.


Felix Frankfurter


#convict #extract #force #his #hold

I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows.


Leon Redbone


#comes #consider #different #extract #history

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.


Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley


#allowed #could #extract #feelings #food

Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy.


David Suzuki


#becoming #continued #conventional #depleted #difficult

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.


Ansel Adams


#extracted #eye #i #i think #interested






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