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Earth Day 2013: the 'pale blue dot' in quotations

5. Black gold

Jim Urquhart/Reuters/File
A mixture of oil, diesel fuel, water and mud sprays as roughnecks wrestle pipe on a True Company oil drilling rig outside Watford, N.D.

"The best thing about the Earth is if you poke holes in it oil and gas come out." 

– Rep. Steve Stockman (R) of Texas, Twitter, 2013

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