#petroleum

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'? ↗

— Dick Gregory

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To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm. ↗

— Harry Houdini

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We need to face it, as a nation we have a reliance on petroleum. ↗

— Lisa Murkowski

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Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat. ↗

— Simone Weil

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