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Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.”
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet
“Give me a half-tanker of iron, and I'll give you an ice-age.”
A new iron age, or a ferric fantasy, US JGOFS News, pp. 5, 11.
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