Quotes About Mines

The division of labour means labelling and stamping men for life—some to splice ropes in factories, some to be foremen in a business, others to shove huge coal-baskets in a particular part of a mine; but none of them to have any idea of machinery as a whole, nor of business, nor of mines. And thereby they destroy the love of work and the capacity for invention that, at the beginning of modern industry, created the machinery on which we pride ourselves so much.

His local campaigns around Macedonia also augmented that absolutely essential economic resource: slaves-slaves to work the mines, slaves to work the fields, slaves to keep the whole economy humming.

The chronic shortage of oil, the debility of the European coal mines and the fragility of the food chain, made it seem unlikely that Germany would in fact be able to 'consolidate' its conquests of 1940 without falling into excessive dependence on the Soviet Union.

I have never discovered a penicillin, and I have not worked in the mines where ores of the more Nobeliferous metals are to be found.

Making sure there are good jobs that pay a decent wage in every part of the country means backing hi-tech companies, modern manufacturing, Britain's scientists and creative industries - not spending billions of pounds reopening coal mines or renationalising huge swaths of the economy.

We were once, she says, a great clan, we laments. Our forefathers worked mines up in those tall mountains; among humans occasionally a cut stone of primal sorrow turns up, or a slag of petrified wrath from an ancient volcano. Yes, those came from up there. We were rich once.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Setiap buku adalah kutipan; setiap rumah adalah kutipan seluruh rimba raya dan tambang-tambang dan bebatuan; setiap manusia adalah kutipan dari semua leluhurnya

That way, that sunlit, gentle path was set with mines, and had at the end of it a chasm she could not contemplate. So she hid her impulse, and did not know, because he was better at concealment than she, that he had noticed it.

Fascinated by history during my secondary education, then by physics and mechanics at the Ecole Polytechnique, I finally entered the national administration of mines in 1936.

Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.

It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.

Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.

But if Smith was right, and gold and silver became money through the natural workings of the market completely independently of governments, then wouldn't the obvious thing be to just grab control of the gold and silver mines?

Chinese contract laborers built the North American railroad system, and Indian "coolies" built the South African mines.

The handling of poisonous snakes in church is a test of faith and grace, just as catching them in one's yard is a test of prowess and courage. The deathly presence of the snake parallels the daily danger in the mines, and the culture takes a sort of ironic pride in its ability to handle it. … The snake is both something radically other and a household presence.

Perhaps the True Self--and the full Christ Mystery (not the same as organized Christianity)--will always live in the backwaters of any empire and the deep mines of any religion.

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.

Ara mateix hi ha criatures que baixen a les mines, diu ella, en aquest instant, a les 13:04 que són ara. Saps que és així. Treuen cobalt de les mines per als cotxes elèctrics que són tan respectuosos amb el medi ambient.

The Army, however, found ways to adapt. It lobbied hard for atomic artillery shells, atomic antiaircraft missiles, atomic land mines.

We are the prisoners of the mechanical orgy pursued inside the earth, for we have dug mines, underground galleries through which we sneak in a band beneath the cities that we want to blow up.

I'm lucky to have football. My father was 16 when he worked in the mines. That's practically a child, going down the mines.

The empire purchased mines (by forced sale?), mined its own ore

the mines will provide a wage for the family to live on, the more for their providing work for all. I am told that there is a place for the smallest of boys and girls and all of the womenfolk as well as the men in the family. Between