"A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass."
-Pearl S. Buck
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"None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.“
-Pearl S. Buck
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"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work."
-Pearl S. Buck
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"To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth."
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"Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then life is dull without it."
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"A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent."
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"The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool."
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"One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up."
-Jeff Goodell
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"Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall."
-Charles Babbage
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"Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently."
-Jeff Goodell
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"A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power."
-Charles Babbage
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"The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power."
-Jeff Goodell
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"We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit."
-Jonathan Safran Foer
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