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"Ladies and gentlemen, today we're here to honor electricity, the charge that charges everything from those electrons snapping in our brain to our father the sun. What's the sun It's kind of like a brain. Electromagnetic field, solar flares sparking back and forth from those nerve cells. We're all one, folks, giant blobs of electricity, all of us. Positive & negative, electromagnetic fields just circling each other. Positive, negative, north, south, male and female. Looking for that electric moment. Magnet to magnet, opposites attract." »Robin Green
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"He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success." »Albert Pike
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"All power corrupts, but we need the electricity." »Unknown
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"Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity." »William Hiram Foulkes
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"All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Reason and Justice tell me that there is more love of man in electricity and steam, than in chastity and refusal to eat meat." »Chekov of Tolstoy
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"Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone." »Ayn Rand
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"electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking." »Dave Barry
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"Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house." »James Thurber
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"Well, Mr. Secretary, I lived in a house without electricity too. No running water, no telephone...I can stand toe-to-toe with you. in response to Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill" »Robert C. Byrd
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"Hey, what do you think drives all this grey matter up here electricity. It's brain waves surfing on synaptic junctions. If your radio can go out because of sun spots, why can't your cerebellum It's all a matter of reception and it seems to me these signals are going to get crossed somehow. It's all logical." »Andrew Schneider
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"There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse." »John Locke
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"The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life." »C. H. Cooley
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"Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world." »Euripides
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"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." »Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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"Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life." »Johann von Goethe
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"Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?" »Dick Francis, Twice Shy
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"Senator, I started my life in a house without water or electricity. So I don't cede to you the high moral ground of not knowing what life is like in a ditch. to Senator Robert Byrd at a budget hearing" »Paul O'Neill
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"Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves to the current view of the world and consecrate it." »John Dewey
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"Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it." »John Dewey
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"The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work." »Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980
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"Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried, unresisting, with the current. They float through easy days. They live, unquestioning, in the moment." »Christopher Darlington Morley
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"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created." »Brenda Ueland
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"The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition." »Richard Clark
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"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." »Thomas Jefferson
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"In matters of style, swim with the current in matters of principle, stand like a rock." »Thomas Jefferson
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"The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion." »Auguste Renoir
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"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation." »Brian Tracy
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"I have a cat named Trash. In the current political climate it would seem that if I were trying to sell him (at least to a Computer Scientist), I would not stress that he is gentle to humans and is self-sufficient, living mostly on field mice. Rather, I would argue that he is object-oriented." »Roger King
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"Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains." »Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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