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Mountaintop removal coal operations enrich only a handful of elites while impoverishing everyone else in their proximity. -- Gloria Reuben
Hurt Village' is based on a real housing project in Memphis, about three minutes away from the Lorraine Hotel where Dr. King was assassinated, so in my work I'm focusing on a very specific area in Memphis. I see 'Hurt Village' as a natural extension of 'The Mountaintop.' -- Katori Hall
I've been to the Mountaintop -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Economic development is what's going to make mountaintop removal palatable. -- Joe Manchin
Prior to that I testified before the Senate subcommittee addressing mountaintop removal. -- Kevin Richardson
If it can't be proven that mountaintop removal mining is safe, we shouldn't allow it to continue. -- John Yarmuth
That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable. -- Henry Rollins
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. -- Nelson Mandela
I used to ski across the vast white expanses of a quiet and lonely mountaintop. In the stillness and solitude... I pondered the mysteries of the universe, the planet, nature and of man. I'm still pondering. -- Fred Kavli
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been. -- George F. Kennan
For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it's all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that's the definition of spectacle. -- Diane Paulus
The story of mountaintop mining - why it happens, and what its consequences are - is still new to most Americans. They have no idea that their country's physical legacy - the purple mountain majesties that are America - is being destroyed at the rate of several ridgetops a week, by three million pounds of explosives every day. -- Michael Shnayerson
Character is forged not on the mountaintop but in the valley. -- Mike Matheny
And we are not mountaintop sages who can live by consuming mist. -- Mineko Iwasaki
Stay put in the hard places, and you'll eventually rest upon the mountaintop. -- Kenneth E. Hagin
The height of the mountaintop is measured by the drab drudgery of the valley. -- Oswald Chambers
You must rise above The gloomy clouds Covering the mountaintop Otherwise, how will you Ever see the brightness? -- Ryokan Taigu
When we're in the storm we learn more about the character of the God we serve than when we're on the mountaintop. -- Natalie Grant
Every day can be a platform to get you closer to your mountaintop. And yet, too many people live life by accident. -- Robin Sharma
When a man gets up so high (spiritual mountaintop) that he cannot reach down and save poor sinners, there is something wrong. -- Dwight L. Moody
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop. -- Vernon Howard
Jesus isn't a God who stayed on the mountaintop - he's a Savior who came down and lived and worked with the people. -- Max Lucado
Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountaintop. You look up and wonder, how could anyone have climbed that high? -- Martin Scorsese
A friend is one who joyfully sings with you when you are on the mountaintop, and silently walks beside you through the valley. -- William Arthur Ward
We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege. -- Pierre Trudeau
Pride is born as a mountaintop on a valley, but dies as an abyss in which it is too deep and too dark to see the better. -- Criss Jami
You go up the mountaintop and all you're gonna get is a great big heavy stone tablet handed to you with a bunch of rules on it. -- Robert M. Pirsig
Hard things are valuable; easy things are not so valuable. Reaching the mountaintop is rewarding because it is hard. If it was easy, everybody would do it. -- Evan Williams
The buddah can reside in the gears of a motorcycle as easily as in a flower on a mountaintop. To believe otherwise is to demean the buddah; which is to demean one's self. -- Robert M. Pirsig

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