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China is a great manufacturing center, but it's actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that comes from the surrounding industrial - more advanced industrial centers - Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, the United States, Europe - and it basically assembles them.

Technology Great Plant Manufacturing

If you see how a plant grows and you taste it in situ you have a perfect example of how it should taste on the plate.

Plant You Perfect See Taste Example

Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me.

Lilly Ledbetter

Work Money Men Me Proud Plant

I write in the mornings once the kids have gone to school, taking my laptop and a coffee to a little writer's room in town where I plant noise-cancelling headphones on my head and get to work.

Work Coffee School Plant Write Head

Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.

Seed Plant Kind Same Whatever Up

The deadnettle is the Punxsutawney Phil of the plant world: short of stature but stout of heart. At the first hint of winter's wane, its stem rises from the ground, and a green, grasping hand of sepals unclenches to divulge two silky-white petals, one of which unfurls straight up toward the sky.

Winter Heart Sky Green World Plant

We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built.

Power Plants Plant Fall Early I Can

The importance of recalls is to show that contaminated meat is getting out the door. And when you look at these recalls, in many ways the most disturbing thing about these recalls is how little of the meat actually winds up back at the plant.

Door Plant You Look Back Meat

What's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing from the public. They strip the labels off miracle wheat when they ship it, for instance, and say, 'Watch out. Don't plant too much and don't depend on it too much.'

David R. Brower

People Ship Plant Doing Hide Say

Barium, which is commonly found in power plant waste and scrubber wastewater, has been linked to heart problems and diseases in other organs.

Heart Power Problems Plant Been

Germany has great skill levels, great infrastructure, high-quality plant. If you go to the U.K., we're very creative, and we've got the language, but energy costs are pretty much the most expensive in the Western world; pensions are pretty expensive, and the skills are significantly below those in Germany and the U.S.

Great Creative World Energy Plant

Since the announcement that Boeing was going to open a plant in Charleston, South Carolina, Boeing has actually created 2,000 new jobs in Washington state. So it's hard to say you are retaliating against the union when you create 2,000 members to their role.

Plant You Create New Say Washington

I'm the kind of guy who can't keep a plant alive for a week, let alone a relationship.

Jerry O'Connell

Relationship Alone Plant Week Alive

I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.

Jacqueline Bisset

Love Time Gardening Plant Doing

There are many plant medicines that are available to us that have a lot of stigma around them that I hope, in the future, our medical community can look at, because I would absolutely go to those alternatives first before I went back to Western medicine.

Melissa Etheridge

Future Hope Community Medical Plant

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Mistakes Doctor Plant Clients Only

What happens if you are the last (the very, very last) of your species, and you die - and humans notice? We live, increasingly, at a time when extinctions are recorded, remembered, and the last animal (or plant) in its line, by virtue of its being last, becomes a kind of celebrity. Its finality becomes a thing to honor.

Robert Krulwich

Live Time Animal Plant Honor Die

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.

Life Animal Sun Plant Fish You

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

Good Gardening I Am Trees Plant You

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

Wangari Maathai

Water Tree Survive Plant Talking

One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager of this power cooperative. It was quite magical to me.

Power Me Plant Manager Single Where

I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman.

Voice Think Plant Way Just He

You could think of an ecosystem as a bunch of antagonistic arms races, almost: Everything that an animal depends upon for food is the body part of some other animal or plant who would just as soon keep that body part for itself.

Food Animal Think Plant You Body

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gardening Plant Weed Never Virtues

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