Mining Consists

Famous quotes containing the words mining and/or consists:

“In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining for the metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)