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"Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion."
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"In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this."
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"We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to be complemented with the import of oil and gas from other sources as raw materials."
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"The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean."
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"Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?"
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"In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways."
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"I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums."
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"We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil every year, but we only have reserves, including that which has not been pumped, of about 3 percent of the oil reserves in the world."
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"Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they will be uncompetitive with renewables."
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"If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available."
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"There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better."
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"He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit."
Family
"It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79."
Government
"If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s."
Economy
"It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else."
Power
"That was not what men and women fought for during the war."
Man
"And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale."
War
"In politics, guts is all."
Politics
"There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief."
People
"And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit."
Choice
"You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation."
Ownership
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