“ Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out. ”
- Marguerite Gardiner- Copy
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“ It is brought home to you…that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal. ”
- Peter Cook- Copy
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“ Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner that works and brings it out. ”
- Lady Marguerite Blessington- Copy
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“ Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there… You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken, you study mineralogy best among miners, and so with everything else. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes. ”
- Blaise Cendrars Sauser- Copy
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“ The union miner cannot agree to the acceptance of a wage principle which will permit his annual earnings and his living standards to be determined by the hungriest unfortunates whom the non-union operators can employ. ”
- John Lewis- Copy
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“ I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them. ”
- Harry Reid- Copy
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