#mining

President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American values. ↗

— George Soros

#american values #bush #endangering #hurting #interests

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#accounts #after #asset #capital #corporation

This war of choice in Iraq is undermining the very fabric of American society. ↗

— Raul Grijalva

#american society #choice #fabric #iraq #society

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 W. Black

#brood #central #engineer #father #gave

Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth. ↗

— Jane Urquhart

#mining #treasure #art

Mining is the art of exploiting mineral deposits at a profit. An unprofitable mine is fit only for the sepulcher of a dead mule. ↗

— T.A. Rickard

#art

Here, are the stiffening hills, here, the rich cargo Congealed in the dark arteries, Old veins That hold Glamorgan's blood. The midnight miner in the secret seams, Limb, life, and bread. - Rhondda Valley ↗

— Mervyn Peake

#coal #coal-miner #glamorgan #hills #miners

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#actual #actual process #closely #examining #i

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#bread #buttered #deliberation #determine #examining

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#history #human #human nature #keeps #nature