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I used to say, 'Mad' takes on both sides.' We even used to rake the hippies over the coals. They were protesting the Vietnam War, but we took aspects of their culture and had fun with it. 'Mad' was wide open.

~Al Feldstein

Topics: Aspects Both Both Sides Coal Culture Even Fun Had Hippies Mad Open Over Protesting Say Sides Takes Took Used Vietnam Vietnam War War Were Wide

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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I've got a problem, I should take their advice. And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn't take their advice.

~Al Franken

Topics: Advice Big Certain Climate Coal Doctors Food Get Got Like Me Other Out Paid Problem Should Snack Take Tell Those Two

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If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high.

~Al Gore

Topics: Because Bills China China And India Coal Declining Demand Dependence Discoveries Energy Ever Foreign Foreign Oil Go Greater Growing High India New Oil Price Rate Should Sky Support Thus Up Want Will You Your

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England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal dust and smoke, from the grit stirred up every day by the jackhammers still clearing out rubble from the Blitz.

~Alexander Cockburn

Topics: Back Blitz Clearing Coal Day Dirty Dust England Every Every Day Grim Grit Late London Out Place Remember Smoke Still Stirred Then Up Very I Remember 1940S

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Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.

~Allan Savory

Topics: Agriculture Coal Destructive Industries Industry Mining More Most Other Than

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In the name of 'mutual assistance,' the Soviet Union would occupy Latvia until 1991, and it continues to occupy Latvia: in the obedient, epic lines at the post office, in the fug of coal smoke outside cities, in the notorious apartment buildings made of bricks of radioactive compressed ash.

~Amity Gaige

Topics: Apartment Assistance Bricks Buildings Cities Coal Epic Lines Made Mutual Name Notorious Obedient Occupy Office Outside Post Post Office Radioactive Smoke Soviet Soviet Union Union Until Would

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I was shadow health secretary for six years, and the beauty of being in opposition - if there is any beauty - is that you tend to get a pretty unvarnished view because no one bothers to paint the coal white before you turn up.

~Andrew Lansley

Topics: Any Beauty Because Before Being Bothers Coal Get Health Opposition Paint Pretty Secretary Shadow Six Tend Turn Up View White Years You

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I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, who's a coal miner, and my mother worked in a normal factory.

~Aneurin Barnard

Topics: Came Coal Factory Father Grew Middle Miner Mother Normal Small South Up Valley Very Wales Worked I Came

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This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

~Aneurin Bevan

Topics: Coal Could Fish Genius Island Made Mainly Only Organizing Produce Same Same Time Shortage Surrounded Time

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I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.

~Ann Romney

Topics: Am Arms Bottles Cleaning Coal Dad Determined First First Job Get Got Granddaughter He His Job Kids Little Miner Mines Old Out Six Village Wales Welsh Who Years I Am

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