Quotes About Extraction

Nothing is so tiring to the reader as excavating nuggets of meaning from mountains of words.

When I was in Mexico, I was told how mescaline was extracted from the peyote cactus.

Common quicksilver exhibits a great 'desire' to combine with related metals. With quicksilver, metal workers can make gold and silver liquid. Quicksilver amalgam has been used since early times to gild metal objects. After application of the liquid amalgam, the quicksilver can be eliminated by fire, and the gold remains. Gold can also be extracted from other minerals by washing with quicksilver.

The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.

It makes no sense to have oil if to get it out you have to let the multinationals come and take it.

Our heart is a garden, which the good God has given us to cultivate, and we must always be aware of the weeds that grow without observation. It is necessary that we should unceasingly apply ourselves to the cultivation of the good and the extraction of the evil which might take root.

the horrendous gash of its mine-works

growth under extractive institutions is limited not only because of lack of technological progress but also because it will encourage infighting from rival groups wishing to take control of the state and the extraction it generates.

For every elite benefiting from extraction there is a non-elite who would love to replace him.

Castor beans' seed hulls must be removed by soaking 1-4 oz. of the beans in 12-36 oz. of distilled water with 4-6 tablespoons of NaOH or 6-8 ts. of commercial lye (the beans' natural buoyancy requiring here that they be weighted down with marbles, sterilized gravel, or low-value coins combined and tied in an ordinary Trojan condom).

The Philippines has vast minerals that are still untapped. It has one of the world's largest deposits of gold, nickel, copper and chromite. Through responsible mining, we intend to generate more revenues from the extraction of these resources.

Much needs to occur, however, between the collection of data and observations, the extraction of parallel material from the existing record, and the final insertion of new material into the general body of the common record. For mature thought there is no mechanical substitute. But creative thought and essentially repetitive thought are very different things. For the latter there are, and may be, powerful mechanical aids.

Neither gold nor diamonds mine themselves.

This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

Dads are the appendix of humanity. They should just be taken out before they start causing problems.

Agents from Sacramento traveled fifteen hundred miles to arrest the goat-gland king. To the governor of Kansas, Jonathan M. Davis, they presented their warrant for extradition. Davis handed it back and told them to go home. Asked why he refused to surrender Brinkley, the governor was disarmingly frank. "We people in Kansas get fat on his medicine," he said. "We're going to keep him here so long as he lives.

People sometimes ask me what length I look for in a method. To me length is not the issue. The key is the semantic distance between the method name and the method body. If extracting improves clarity, do it, even if the name is longer than the code you have extracted.

You have taken the important, essential core of the apple, including (one must not forget) the nasty pips, and scales (I do not know what you call those little things) which must be spat out.