- Electricity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dam Quotes
Quotes that use the dam as metaphor and as landscape.
Half of these lines use the dam as a sharp metaphor — money finding cracks in a reformer's dam, lawyers damming up the mainstream like beavers — while others turn to real rivers and the newer trend of removing old dams for Environmental restoration.
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- Egyptian
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Egyptian Nile, though it does have its own particular hazards, is subject to none of what I find in Rhode Island. Since the Aswan High Dam was built in 1973, the Nile has become something of a grand canal. It is wide, flat, slow, and so calm it verges on the geriatric.
- Data
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- Nov 07, 2020
As many will remember, a respected Army Corps economist filed a whistleblower complaint about the Corps' use of faulty data to justify lock and dam expansion.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I remain troubled by the Corps' inability to fully justify the Model they used for their commercial traffic predictions, America clearly has an aging lock and dam infrastructure on the Mississippi.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect.
- Mine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state.
- Consecrated
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- Nov 07, 2020
One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's millions of times more efficient to collect hydroelectric power through a dam than raindrop by raindrop.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.
- Harnessing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020