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  • Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained. -- Adam Clarke
  • The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment. -- Bono
  • My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction. -- Joan Collins
  • Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems. -- Rudolf Carnap
  • Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation. -- David Malpass
  • Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species. -- Sylvia Earle
  • I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions and faces, with some intonation that combines ancient human experience with timely coquetry. -- Erland Josephson
  • 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. -- Benigno Aquino III
  • I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they normally wouldn't be stimulated to be visually creative. Graffiti helps to develop an awareness of immediate expressive and uncontrolled freedom. -- Barry McGee
  • Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy. -- David Suzuki
  • There are those of us that believe if you truly want to try drive down the cost of gas, if you really want to solve the problem, then you should be pursuing the extraction of our resources that are right here at home: alternative energy and traditional. -- Jason Chaffetz
  • The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality. -- Robert Mugabe
  • My parents, of Belgian-German extraction, were Belgian nationals who had taken refuge in England during the war. They returned to Belgium in 1920, and I grew up in the cosmopolitan harbour city of Antwerp, at a time when education in the Flemish part of the country was still half French and half Flemish. -- Christian de Duve
  • Resource extraction impacts a global environment that is increasingly at severe risk. -- Noam Chomsky
  • You're an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn't be limited by your extraction. -- Cillian Murphy
  • [Jill Stein] want a global treaty to halt climate change that adds teeth and ends destructive energy extraction. -- Ralph Nader
  • My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him My mother is British, but she's of French extraction. -- Joan Collins
  • My father," she admitted, "was of Italian extraction. Unfortunately, not an affliction that can be cured." She paused. "Though he did die. -- Gail Carriger
  • Abetted by misguided or co-opted intellectuals, the rulers weave a cloak of legitimacy to disguise their theft and hence to ease their extraction of wealth from the rightful owners. -- Robert Higgs
  • This is a unique deposit not just in terms of reserves, but also in terms of extraction techniques. Therefore there're grounds to talk about [applying] the Product Sharing Agreement. -- Viktor Khristenko
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