"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."
-George Eliot
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"I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out."
-George Eliot
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"I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men."
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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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