Mines Quotes
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Rocks rich in gems, and Mountains big with mines, That on the high Equator, ridgy, rise, Whence many a bursting Stream auriferous plays.
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The major investors in the diamond mines created the instrument in 1888 called De Beers Consolidated mines, Ltd., and incorporated in South Africa. De Beers proved to be the most successful cartel arrangement in the annals of modern commerce . The diamond invention is far more than a monopoly for fixing diamond prices; it is a mechanism for converting tiny crystals of carbon into universally recognized tokens of wealth , power , and romance ..."A Diamond Is Forever" became the official motto of De Beers.
— Edward Jay Epstein, in "Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?"
What thousands and millions of recollections there must be in us! And every now and then one of them becomes known to us; and it shows us what spiritual depths are growing in us, what mines of memory.
william mountford— P. 407. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Solomon was a 'copper king', and all along that Araba, on both sides, we found many copper mines and smelting stations, all attributable to Solomon and his immediate successors.
solomon— Cyrus H. Gordon, Adventures in the Nearest East (1957)
Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
amy tan— The Kitchen God's Wife (1991)
Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
anton webern— Igor Stravinsky
Does not even the most sexually democratic of us, among which number I unquestionably count myself, not choke back the tiniest sob at the sight of poor old Denis stumbling along behind, struggling pitifully to hold his trilby on, as the PM strides across Goose Green with the wind managing only to make her hair look more Medusan, and the very mines praying she will not crush them under-heel?
alan coren— "Subordinate Claus", Bumf (1984)
When mining… and other death professions are discussed in feminist publications, they are portrayed as examples of the male power system, as male-only clubs. However, when Ms. Magazine profiled female miners, the emphasis was on how the woman was ‘forced’ to take a job in the mines because it paid the best, and how taking such a job was the only way she could support her family.
warren farrell— p. 116. (Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex)
Lord Stafford mines for coal and salt, The Duke of Norfolk deals in malt, The Douglas in red herrings.
fitz-greene halleck— Alnwick Castle.
Dans toutes les professions chacun affecte une mine et un extérieur pour paraître ce qu'il veut qu'on le croie. Ainsi on peut dire que le monde n'est composé que de mines.
françois de la rochefoucauld— In all professions we affect a part and an appearance to seem what we wish to be. Thus the world is merely composed of actors.Variant translation: In all professions, each affects a part and an appearance to make him seem as he would wish to be believed. And so it is that one can say that the world is made only of appearances.Maxim 256.
Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun, But dream of him, and guess where he may be, And do their best to climb, and get to him.
Robert Browning— Robert Browning, Paracelsus, last page.
There is a jewel which no Indian mines can buy, No chymic art can counterfeit; It makes men rich in greatest poverty, Makes water wine; turns wooden cups to gold; The homely whistle to sweet music's strain, Seldom it comes; to few from Heaven sent, That much in little, all in naught, Content.
— John Wilbye, Madrigales, There Is a Jewel.
Copious springs are found where there are mines of gold, silver, iron, copper, lead, and the like, but they are very harmful.
— Chapter III, Sec. 5 (Book VII)
Solomon was a 'copper king', and all along that Araba , on both sides, we found many copper mines and smelting stations, all attributable to Solomon and his immediate successors.
— Cyrus H. Gordon, Adventures in the Nearest East (1957)
He came back to England convinced that Rhodes and his fellow mining capitalists had engineered the war in order to removed the leaders of the Boer republics who stood in the way of the rationalisation of the black labour supply in the gold mines."
— p. 9 (J. A. Hobson's Imperialism: A Study: A Centennial Retrospective (2002))
India had the start of the whole world in the beginning of things. She had the first civilization; she had the first accumulation of material wealth; she was populous with deep thinkers and subtle intellects; she had mines, and woods, and a fruitful soul.
mark twain— Through Indian Eyes (1995)
They end up working the claims that are the least attractive, and yet they make a success in them, because they work harder, because they have a technique and a willingness to struggle longer. They're willing to work on the Sundays, they're willing to give up all play and concentrate. And so even when they've been driven out of the workable mines and they turn to the most, seemingly, desert-like places, barren places, they succeed, and this aggravates and angers the Americans even more.
j. s. holliday— On Chinese immigrants during the Gold Rush
The sacrifices of our people were very great. Out of a population of one million, 28,000 were killed, 12,600 wounded, 10,000 were made political prisoners in Italy and Germany, and 35,000 made to do forced labour, of ground; all the communications, all the ports, mines and electric power installations were destroyed, our agriculture and livestock were plundered, and our entire national economy was wrecked.
enver hoxha— Enver Hoxha, Selected Works, 1941–1948, vol. I (Tirana: 8 Nëntori Publishing House, 1974, 599-600)
Copious springs are found where there are mines of gold, silver, iron, copper, lead, and the like, but they are very harmful.
vitruvius— Chapter III, Sec. 5
Doomed to a total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, the mines of which he had such a perfect knowledge .
— Igor Stravinsky, in Stephen Walsh Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934 – 1971, Random House, 30 September 2011, p.332
If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with banknotes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal mines which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it private enterprise on well tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again (the right to do so being obtained, of course, by tendering for leases of the note-bearing territory), there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of the repercussions, the real income of the community, and its capital wealth also, would probably become a good deal greater than it actually is.
john maynard keynes— Book 3, Chapter 10, Section 6, p. 129
