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• In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London, to Manchester. There they found skilled and energetic workmen, ready to carry their plans into effect.

  James Nasmyth

  Brother, Machines, London

  James Nasmyth (2010). “James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography”, p.161, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive, and skilful. And best of all, it keeps them off the street.

  Gus Kyle

  Kids, Hockey, Streets

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• And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.

  Tycho Brahe

  Science, Men, Sky

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• Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane.

  Audrey Meadows

  People, Rooms, Lanes

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• Anger is an emotion that is very energetic. It is an ideal emotion to turn it around to make it work as a positive force.

  Yoko Ono

  Emotion, Force, Turns

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• Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.

  Karl Marx

  Political, Revolution, Dictatorship

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1977). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works”, International Pub

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• The letting go is an energetic process that moves us in a different flow of reality beyond the illusion and into more of a free-flowing liberation space.

  Christine McCormick Day

  Letting Go, Moving, Reality

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• For me, all of the data that is contained in your cell memory, and in your energetic field, is able to be picked up.

  Caroline Myss

  Memories, Cells, Data

  Source: www.shareguide.com

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• As a kid, I think people would have described me more as a goofball, or being energetic. But I always loved parodies; I loved spoofing things.

  Noel Wells

  Kids, Thinking, People

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

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• One must recently have lived on or close to a college campus to have a vivid intimation of what has happened. It is there that we see how a number of energetic social innovators, plugging their grand designs, succeeded over the years in capturing the liberal intellectual imagination. And since ideas rule the world, the ideologues, having won over the intellectual class, simply walked in and started to run things. Run just about everything. There never was an age of conformity quite like this one, or a camaraderie quite like the Liberals'.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Running, College, Years

  "Publisher's Statement" in the first issue of National Review, November 19, 1955.

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• No doubt exists that rent seeking in general leads to serious inefficiencies in this direct sense, but its indirect damage is even worse. Drawing the bulk of intelligent and energetic people in society into activity that has no social product, or may have a negative social product, is more important in explaining the stagnation of these societies than the direct social cost of the rent seeking.

  Gordon Tullock

  Intelligent, Drawing, People

  Gordon Tullock, Gordon L. Brady, Arthur Seldon (2002). “Government Failure: A Primer in Public Choice”, p.49, Cato Institute

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• In democracies, nothing is more great or more brilliant than commerce: it attracts the attention of the public, and fills the imagination of the multitude; all energetic passions are directed towards it.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Passion, Imagination, Democracy

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1847). “Democracy in America”

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• Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.

  Akio Morita

  Intelligent, People, Creative

  "The future of labor-management cooperative programs" by John Raymond Phillips, (p. 160), 1986.

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• Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

  Jello Biafra

  Creating, Stupidity, Important

  Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. April 9, 1997.

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• The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still.

  Clarence Day

  Energy, Fields, Certain

  Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.15, 1st World Publishing

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• I have a good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards.

  Albert Camus

  Laughter, Attitude, Laughing

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.41, Vintage

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• For the most part, it is true, ordinary men and women regard mathematics with energetic distaste, counting its concepts as rhapsodic as cauliflower. This is a mistake-there is no other word. Where else can the restless human mind find means to tie the infinite in a finite bow?

  David Berlinski

  Mistake, Mean, Men

  David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling.

  C. L. R. James

  Country, Kings, Long

  C L R James (2001). “The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution”, p.180, Penguin UK

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• My only supporter and comrade-in-arms was Georg Helm, who had endeavored to formulate an energetic conception of science before me and had presented his results in a treatise [Die Lehre von der Energie] exhibiting great independence of thought. But we were separated by his aversion to a realistic conception of energy. Consequently, each of us considered the other only a half ally, toward whom an attitude of caution was necessary.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Attitude, Independence, Allies

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• There were some days that deserved to be drowned at birth and everyone sent back to bed with a hot brandy, a box of chocolates and a warm, energetic companion. Today was without question one of those days.

  Diana Pharaoh Francis

  Chocolate, Bed, Hot

  Diana Pharaoh Francis (2014). “Trace of Magic”, p.265, Bell Bridge Books

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• The vector equilibrium is the true zero reference of the energetic mathematics. Zero pulsation in the vector equilibrium is the nearest approach we will ever know to eternity and god: the zero phase of conceptual integrity inherent in the positive and negative asymmetries that propagate the differentials of consciousness.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Zero, Integrity, Negative

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• You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.

  Andy Grove

  Team, Fire, Events

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• The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.

  Charles Darwin

  Vegetarianism, World, Vegan

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• The way the world works now, the way the rules of engagement operate, you can't claim to make sense out of the exterior without booking voyages into the interior. Think about it: How can you understand 'it' if you haven't made any effort to understand 'you'? Because what you're really doing is establishing a living, electrical, vital, energetic connection between it and you. You're creating both of them, simultaneously. A lot like quantum physics.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Self, Creating

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• Man is a luxury-loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.

  Eric Hoffer

  Animal, Men, Play

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 28, 1973.

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