Oil Quotes
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I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.
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Petroleum, Law of: Where there are Muslims, there is oil; the converse is not true.
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Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy!
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A significant number of petroleum geologists believe that we will reach the global maximum of petroleum extraction within this decade or that we have already reached it. Peak Oil happened in 1970 in America, when over half of our oil that we gained from the soil was exhausted ... This is very disturbing, regardless of global warming.
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Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day, or Warren's blackin' or Rowland's oil, or some o' them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy.
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This is an attempt by Indonesia to try and supplement their oil output because they have not been very successful in inviting foreign investment into their country to boost domestic production.
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We will die a slow death over the next two years as this oil creeps ashore.
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Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
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The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will not get very far.
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Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves?
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There could be oil coming up until August.
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The big risk in Saudi Arabia is that Ghawar's rate of decline increases to an alarming point. That will set bells ringing all over the oil world because Ghawar underpins Saudi output and Saudi undergirds worldwide production.
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Low oil prices played a part in a major move by Congress voting to end the 40-year-old ban on exporting American crude oil.
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There are men who would be afraid to commit themselves on the doctrine that castor oil is a laxative.
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During the 1960s, we used twice as much oil as during the 1950s. And in each of those decades, more oil was consumed than in all of mankind's previous history.
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Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.
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I'll oil wells love you. I'll oil wells care. I'll oil wells need you. I want you oil wells dear.
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We know that pumping oil out of the ground does not create many jobs. It does not foster an entrepreneurial spirit, nor does it sharpen critical faculties.
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Iraqi oil is sold by Iraq.
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We simply have to transition from an economy based almost exclusively on oil and coal and natural gas to one that's far more diversified, that uses solar energy, and wind energy, and the power of the tides, and bio-mass energy, and eventually, develops hydrogen.
