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The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Henry David Thoreau / Author
Nature
Time
Air
Allowance
Copper
Finest
Gentle
Gentle Touch
Leisure
Steel
Tools
Water
Workers
Liberal
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I actually won the Copper Gloves in Arizona.
Henry Cejudo / Olympic Athlete
Arizona
Copper
Gloves
Won
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I don't want to play a copper. I couldn't do it.
Diane Morgan /
Copper
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Galvanized plumbing was used years ago. Now we use copper.
Christina Anstead /
Copper
Plumbing
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I live in the 20th century. I have copper rivets on my jeans.
David Maisel /
Copper
Jeans
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The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm.
Henry David Thoreau / Author
Bears
Copper
Worms
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I know how to lay a copper pipe and PVC. And I was forklift certified.
Summer Rae /
Copper
Pipe
Certified
Lay
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Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.
Catherine Helen Spence / Author
Australia
Copper
Discovery
Corner
Turned
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Just because there's tarnish on the copper, doesn't mean there's not a shine beneath.
Laurence Yep / Writer
Copper
Mean
Shining
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To me, the people on 'Copper' were rock stars. Before I joined that show, I loved that show.
Donal Logue / Actor
Copper
Stars
Stars Me People
Loved
Me People Rock
Joined
Rock
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You can't trust the 'specials' like the old time 'coppers' When you can't find your way home.
Marie Lloyd / Singer
Home
Copper
Way
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Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, 'No.'
Douglas Brinkley / Author
Copper
Grand Canyon
Theodore
Canyon
Politicians
Grand
Mine
Roosevelt
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When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
Barbara Ehrenreich / American Political Figure
Blue
Blue Collar
Copper
Father
Montana
Miner
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From myself I am copper, through you, friend, I am gold. From myself I’m a stone, but through you, I am a gem!
Rumi / Poet
Copper
Gold
Stones
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It was hard to do 'Vikings.' It was hard to do 'Copper.' Part of that was, like, there's dialect and other things.
Donal Logue / Actor
Copper
Dialect
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Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
Thomas Hood / Poet
Travel
Brass
Copper
Mind
Wire
Farther
Minds
Narrower
Resemble
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Copper is a superb cooking metal, conducting heat so evenly it has unparalleled control, especially at low temperatures.
Andrew Zimmern / Television Personality
Conducting
Copper
Heat
Superb
Metal
Temperatures
Unparalleled
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Given a choice, people will demand the freedom to communicate wherever they are, unfettered by the infamous copper wire.
Martin Cooper / Innovator
Communicate
Copper
Demand
Infamous
Wire
Freedom People Will
Unfettered
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Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.
Bill Gates / Investor
Copper
Ghana
Globalization
Kenya
Made
Resources
Valuable
Discovered
Mineral
Recently
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The Crafty Cockney had a picture of the owner dressed up as a copper, so I brought it home, wore it on TV and the name just stuck.
Eric Bristow / Darts Player
Copper
Crafty
Stuck
Picture
Cockney
Dressed
Owner
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He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'
Terry Pratchett / Author
Armour
Copper
Shouting
Thunderstorm
Wet
Person
Bastards
He
Sort
Stood
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I have never stored water in plastic bottles, always in glass, steel or copper bottles and containers. I even carry my own water to work, and refill bottles for drinking.
Dia Mirza /
Bottles
Copper
Drinking
Plastic
Steel
Carry
Glass
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Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.
Rumi / Poet
Bitter
Copper
Gold
Medicine
Pain
Sweet
Wine
Through
Turn
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Iron which is brought near a spiral of copper wire, traversed by an electrical current, becomes magnetic, and then attracts other pieces of iron, or a suitably placed steel magnet.
Hermann Von Helmholtz / Physician
Copper
Electrical
Iron
Magnet
Steel
Wire
Attracts
Current
Near
Placed
Spiral
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Most canele recipes begin with an instruction to brush $30 copper molds with melted beeswax. Unsurprisingly, I've never made it past the Internet search for 'used canele molds' before giving up.
Samin Nosrat /
Copper
Giving Up
Instruction
Recipes
Brush
Melted
Search
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I can go completely berserk with the makeup, depending on the event. I'm currently in this very mod stage. I wear false lashes and color on my eyelids. I'm really liking shiny eyelids in copper, rose, gold, or silver.
Sharon Stone / Actress
Berserk
Color
Copper
Gold
Lashes
Makeup
Rose
Silver
Stage
Currently
Depending
Event
False
Wear
Liking
Shiny
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I have an affinity for the old Seattle coffee shops, places like the Green Onion and the Copper Kettle, the classic kind of coffee bar - little places that served breakfast, lunch and dinner and have pretty much disappeared.
Tom Douglas /
Affinity
Breakfast
Classic
Coffee
Copper
Dinner
Green
Lunch
Seattle
Shops
Bar
Coffee Shops
Disappeared
Onion
Served
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I'm a very careful, slow writer, and I think a lot of that comes from the care required to be a hand-printer, where if something isn't spaced out enough, you take little slivers of brass or copper and put them between each letter.
Paul Fleischman / Writer
Brass
Careful
Copper
Letter
Slow
Required
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I knew a homeless guy who'd give all the copper coins that people gave him to charity. So I think there's something that makes us want to give. For me, it's quite a selfish luxury: you feel enlivened, deepened and self-nurtured by generosity.
Tamsin Greig / Actress
Charity
Coins
Copper
Generosity
Guy
Homeless
Luxury
Selfish
Me People Feel
Me Selfish People
Quite
Gave
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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 / President Of The Philippines
Copper
Extraction
Gold
Minerals
Philippines
Resources
Uranium Mining
World
Vast
Still
Generate
Intend
Largest
Nickel
Revenues
Untapped
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When someone needs copper, or wood or an ag product, and they invest capital somewhere to make that happen, and people get jobs from that, and that good gets introduced to the world stage and it gets traded and moved, the whole world benefits.
Erik Prince /
Jobs
Benefits
Copper
Moved
Needs
Stage
Good World People
Somewhere
Capital
Invest
World Stage
Gets
Happen
Introduced
Product
Traded
Wood
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The active and abandoned tailings ponds I have photographed, for example, are strangely beautiful - yet they are also chock full of cyanide, which is used in the recovery of microscopic particles of gold from the waste tailings of copper mines.
David Maisel /
Abandoned
Active
Copper
Example
Gold
Mines
Particles
Recovery
Waste
For Example
Microscopic
Photographed
Strangely
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When I was 16 years old, I assembled a 2.3 million electron volt beta particle accelerator. I went to Westinghouse, I got 400 pounds of translator steel, 22 miles of copper wire, and I assembled a 6-kilowatt, 2.3 million electron accelerator in the garage.
Michio Kaku / Physicist
Beta
Copper
Garage
Miles
Pounds
Steel
Wire
Years
Accelerator
Old
Electron
Got
Million
Particle
Translator
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My family wasn't terribly affluent and looked upon money very carefully as something that had to be saved, not spent. My father built the ducting that took air into the copper mines and made about 6 d a yard in the Thirties, which was good money back then.
Wilbur Smith / Novelist
Affluent
Air
Copper
Father
Mines
Saved
Yards
Family Good Money
Carefully
Terribly
Thirties
Yard
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My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business in copper and aluminum wire. He was very strict and he wanted me to work in the family business - for him, the worst thing was having a daughter who worked in fashion.
Carmen Busquets /
Daughter
Copper
Strict
Wire
Family Work Business
Family Business
Worked
Worst Thing
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Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining. Copper is huge here, and now uranium. And then we have the federal government coming in, writing all these rules and regulations and telling us that we can't do this and we can't do that. We need concise, clear answers.
Jan Brewer / Governor Of Arizona
Government
Arizona
Beautiful
Concise
Copper
Federal Government
Mining
Uranium
Writing
Federal
Regulations
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The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will not explain life's origin, any more than a study of silicon, copper and plastic will explain how a computer can execute a program.
Paul Davies / Physicist
Chemistry
Computer
Copper
Information
Logical
Mere
Plastic
Program
Silicon
Structure
Study
Way
Complex
Differs
Execute
Explain
Fundamentally
Involves
Origin
Therefore
Way Life
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The coupling of aryl halides with copper at very high temperature is called the Ullmann reaction, which is of broad scope and has been used to prepare many symmetrical biaryls. However, when a mixture of two different aryl halides is used, there are three possible biaryl products.
Akira Suzuki /
Copper
Scope
Symmetrical
Temperature
Broad
Prepare
Reaction
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I used a kind of gray-green early on in my practice for painting steel, to make it look more like it had a kind of patina to it, like copper and bronze and so on. The color I used was a Benjamin Moore color called 2012. My then-young daughter started calling me 2012 - it was my nickname.
Michael Graves / Architect
Bronze
Copper
Steel
Moore
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We're teaming up with a major Hollywood studio, and we're making a movie called 'Copper.' It's set on Mars in the 24th century. By then we've got 27 billion people in the world, copper is the world's most valuable metal because everything runs on electricity, and there's no more burning of hydrocarbons.
Robert Friedland /
Burning
Copper
Electricity
Mars
Valuable
World People More
Billion
Metal
Runs
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'Copper' is my first period piece. It's funny because I've been doing a lot of episodes of 'Elementary' with Johnny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu; they keep bringing me back on the show, and so I go from being an outstanding black doctor to being a kind of hood, ex-car thief who went through rehab in 'Elementary.'
Ato Essandoh / Television Actor
Copper
Episodes
Hood
Lucy
Outstanding
Rehab
Bringing
Elementary
Johnny
Lee
Miller
Thief
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The Queen of Crafts herself, Martha Stewart, and I have the same birthday. I prefer to think it's the glue-gun wielding, perfect-tart-producing Martha and not the copper pan-throwing, jail-going Martha. But I suppose if I am going to share a calendar square with some of Martha, I have to share it with all of Martha.
Sloane Crosley / Writer
Birthday
Queens
Smile
Copper
Crafts
Gun
Share
Thinking
Prefer
Calendar
Herself
Queen
Martha
Suppose
Martha Stewart
Square
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Those first big concerts we played as 'Throwing Copper' started to really reach people worldwide - I think we played our first big arena show at the George Estate basketball arena down in Atlanta. I remember showing up and standing on stage and just being like, 'I can't believe this is going to be full of people. This is huge.'
Ed Kowalczyk /
Arena
Atlanta
Concerts
Copper
Showing Up
Throwing
Estate
Showing
Worldwide
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