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• During the four days of the storm, I became accustomed to the soft light of lamps and candles and grew to like it. When the power came on again, I discovered that I was actually disappointed. The electric lights seemed cold and impersonal; they revealed too much.

  Damon Knight

  Light, Storm, Lamps

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• He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Joy, Cooking, Energy

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• When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use machinery that thinks faster than you do. An electric typewriter is ready to go before I have anything to say.

  Andy Rooney

  Writing, Thinking, Typewriters

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.94, PublicAffairs

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• You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass.

  Stanley Clarke

  School, College, Play

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• As much as I love acoustic Neil Young - and I do deeply - I may be more passionate about the electric. Luckily it's not a contest, and we never have to make that choice. But Neil Young on an electric guitar - I feel like I've never seen or heard anything like it.

  Jonathan Demme

  Guitar, Choices, Passionate

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 24, 2010.

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• Much of the big media outlets in North America are owned by arms manufacturers, like Westinghouse, or G.E. [General Electric]. That's unacceptable. So we're not getting editorial policy, we're not getting a vision of truth. People just don't know what is going on anymore, and that's really dangerous stuff.

  Denis Halliday

  Media, America, People

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• When you write for a living and you can't do anything else, you know that sooner or later that the deadline is going to come screaming down on you like a goddamn banshee. There's no avoiding it...So one day you just don't appear at the El Adobe bar anymore; you shut the door, paint the windows black, rent an electric typewriter and become the monster you always were - the writer.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Typewriters, Doors

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• This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Electric Shock, Empty Rooms, White

  Jacob M. Appel (2014). “Phoning Home: Essays”, p.62, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it.

  Dan Flavin

  Light, Desire, Fantasy

  Dan Flavin (1989). “Neue Anwendungen fluoreszierenden Lichts mit Diagrammen, Zeichnungen und Drucken von Dan Flavin, 26.2.-16.4.1989, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• What lead me more or less directly to the special theory of relativity was the conviction that the electromotive force acting on a body in motion in a magnetic field was nothing else but an electric field.

  Albert Einstein

  Special, Acting, Body

  Letter to the Michelson Commemorative Meeting of the Cleveland Physics Society, 1952.

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• The Holy Spirit's motivation is always the same thing -to charge the word with heaven's own electric power.

  Reinhard Bonnke

  Motivation, Electric Power, Heaven

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• Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills.

  Terry Pratchett

  Nature, Keys, Pyramids

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• Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion.

  Alessandro Volta

  Science, Differences, Different

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• I sing the body electric.

  Walt Whitman

  Philosophy, Medicine, Soma

  Title of poem (1855)

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• Embracing a low carbon economy will be as momentous as the previous industrial revolutions. As the shift from coal to oil did. And the shift from gas light to electric light. It has the potential to give us the competitive edge in the new global economy. The scale of the challenge is extraordinary. We will need to reinvent in the way we live our lives, the way our world works

  Charles Hendry

  Our World, Light, Oil

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• Body Electric... It is the first song from my new short film called #‎ Tropico that is coming out in the end of the month.

  Lana Del Rey

  Song, Body, Months

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• I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music.

  Keith Jarrett

  Thinking, Mouths, Taste

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• At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.

  David Ogilvy

  Noise, Hours, Clock

  David Ogilvy (1997). “An Autobiography”, p.118, John Wiley & Sons

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• I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Golf, Mph, Car

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Production goes up and up because high pressure advertising and salesmanship constantly create new needs that must be satisfied: this is Admass- a consumer's race with donkeys chasing an electric carrot.

  J. B. Priestley

  Race, Needs, Pressure

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• I like big shows, a lot of volume and a lot of energy. I love electric instruments. But I do love mixing those with bluegrass instruments and cranking those up, too, with a little bit of that rock energy.

  Dierks Bentley

  Rocks, Mixing, Energy

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• Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.

  Billy Joel

  Dirty, Found You, Quality

  Song: You May Be Right, Album: Glass Houses, 1980

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• I was loud and electric at night, got all shook up with Elvis.

  Sammy Hagar

  Night, Loud

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• I think the facts leave no doubt that the very mightiest among the chemical forces are of electric origin. The atoms cling to their electric charges, and opposite electric charges cling to each other.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Science, Thinking, Opposites

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• The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye, clothing an extension of the skin, electric circuitry an extension of the central nervous system.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Book, Eye, Media

  Marshall McLuhan, Bruce R. Powers (1989). “The global village: transformations in world life and media in the 21st century”, Oxford University Press, USA

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