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• When you realize that the real breakthroughs come from levels of higher consciousness, then you also realize that the achievement of maturity and wisdom is the most powerful generator of new beginnings possible.

  Marianne Williamson

  Powerful, Real, New Beginnings

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Our whole educational and cultural system is not designed to provide those intellectual tools, so people are often lost and the internet often becomes kind of a cult generator.

  Noam Chomsky

  Educational, People, Intellectual

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• What are the top 20 universities in the world that do good materials research that might create carbon fibers to do jet stream kites or new magnets that will allow [energy] generation to be done up there and you just bring the electricity down. You either have to bring down rotational energy, which is hard, or you have to have the generator up there and bring down the electricity. Well, putting the generator up there is hard to do because it's too heavy.

  Bill Gates

  Energy, Generations, Done

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• I do know what’s been useless to me is the online fantasy name generators. I’ve tried those a few times, and they say, ‘Just hit this button and we’ll generate 50 fantasy names,’ and they all turn out to be ‘Grisknuckle’.

  George R. R. Martin

  Names, Buttons, Useless

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• Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Powerful, Thinking, Cynical

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• I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

  Mike Mills

  Art, Ideas, Film

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• Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.

  Eli Roth

  Writing, Self, Creative

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• Within three hours of a disaster event there should be a recon damage assessment of the infrastructure and an educated guess as to the casualties and degree of imminent human peril. Then make the airdrops of supplies and personnel. Simultaneously, Seabees would be dropped in, with lights and generators, to begin rescue efforts.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Light, Assessment, Effort

  "We Need An Emergency Boss" by Steven Van Zandt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2010.

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• The rotating armatures of every generator and motor in this age of electricity are steadily proclaiming the truth of the relativity theory to all who have ears to hear.

  Leigh Page

  Science, Age, Ears

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• Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.

  Abraham Maslow

  Appreciation, Motivation, Blessing

  Abraham H. Maslow (1970). “Motivation and Personality”

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• The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Powerful, Lying

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• No one realized that the pumps that delivered fuel to the emergency generators were electric.

  Angel Feliciano

  Fuel, Pumps, Emergencies

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• It is only when a person has his own generator that we can talk about motivation. He then needs no outside stimulation. He wants to do it.

  Frederick Herzberg

  Motivation, Needs, Want

  Frederick Herzberg (1982). “The managerial choice: to be efficient and to be human”

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• To the extent that movies get released, they are generally not big box-office generators. Hollywood is clearly focusing on their holiday releases coming up and those will either make or break the year.

  Tom Arnold

  Holiday, Years, Office

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• I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Fun, Energy, Batteries

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

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• A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Airports, Sheep, Feelings

  Yehuda Amichai (2013). “The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai”, p.152, Univ of California Press

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• Do the elevators work?" I ask Uriah, as quietly as I can. "Sure they do." says Zeke, rolling his eyes, "You think I'm stupid enough not to come here early and turn on the emergency generator?" "Yeah," says Uriah. "I kinda do.

  Veronica Roth

  Stupid, Eye, Thinking

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• I am at a loss to figure out how to rid my e-mail of those bottom-feeders of the electronic world, the generators of spam.... If I were Emperor of the World, I would lock all the spammers in a room and force them to watch nothing but TV commercials for the rest of their miserable lives, and I would condemn the people who respond to spammers to do nothing but clean the toilets in this room.

  Richard Turner

  Loss, People, Mail

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• Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

  Carson McCullers

  Passion, Writing, Love Is

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings”, p.281, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.

  Andrew Stanton

  Kids, Hanging Out

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• The simplest scheme of evolution is one that depends on two processes; a generator and a test. The task of the generator is to produce variety, new forms that have not existed previously, whereas the task of the test is to cull out the newly generated forms so that only those that are well fitted to the environment will survive.

  Herbert Simon

  Two, Tests, Tasks

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• We know that where community exists in confers upon its members identity, a sense of belonging, and a measure of security. . . . Communities are the ground-level generators and preservers of values and ethical systems.

  John Gardner

  Community, Identity, Levels

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• When things go awry, trust powers the generators until the problem is fixed.

  Max De Pree

  Problem, Fixed

  Max De Pree (1997). “Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community”, Jossey-Bass

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• In most musical instruments the resonator is made of wood while the actual sound generator is of animal origin. In cultures where music is still used as a magical force, the making of an instrument always involves the sacrifice of a living being. That being's soul then becomes part of the instrument and in the tones that come forth, the 'singing dead,' who are ever present with us, make themselves heard.

  Joscelyn Godwin

  Sacrifice, Animal, Soul

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• More primordial than any idea, beauty will be manifest as the herald and generator or ideas.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Ideas, Manifest

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1975). “Toward The Future”, Mariner Books

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