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"Heaping glowing coals on another person's head is usually misunderstood and comes to nothing because the other person knows just as well that he is in the right and has also given some thought on his own part to heaping coals."
"If youre a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration."
"Coal miners don't get coal miners' block."
"Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants."
"Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time"
"Rumors of coal's demise may have been greatly exaggerated."
"Prescriptive regulations, such as telling electric utilities what kinds of coal to burn or what kinds of scrubbers to install on their smokestacks, were not only intrusive, they were also grossly inefficient."
"Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns."
"To hell with the Constitution when people want coal!"
"Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal."
"Don't save the canary. Fix the coal mine."
"Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals."
"If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all."
