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He had become completely mad in his movements; He seemed to be doing everything at the same time. It...

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American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're...

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I do have hope. Nature is enormously resilient, humans are vastly intelligent, the energy and enthus...

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The true nature of the world is energy not mass.

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Energy is what I believe all of us are. We're just conscious awareness dancing for itself for no oth...

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But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative ren...

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I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspectiv...

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Sleep's what we need. It produces an emptiness in us into which sooner or later energies flow.

In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, ha...

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In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lif...

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Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how...

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I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.

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John KeatsLetters of John Keats

I don't think enough players channel the energy of the crowd. If it's done properly, and you don't l...

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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows ...

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John MuirThe Mountains of California

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write...

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Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opini...

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There were formerly horizons within which people lived and thought and mythologized. There are now n...

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Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can...

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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of...

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The very persons who have taken away my time and space are those who have given me something to say.

There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.

When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will t...

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And I do, god, how I do love playing live, it's the most primal form of energy release you can share...

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The thought cross his mind that he ought to have married her and not gone rambling. If he had, he wo...

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The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us l...

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What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up to some person...

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Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovat...

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The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in ...

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Love. And again, see I don't mean, I think love is that condition in the human spirit so profund, th...

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Even if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough ener...

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It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipul...

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Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of govern...

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One seldom expects the country's president to adequately note the passing of a rocker, but Jimmy Car...

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There are a lot of things you can do in space, and space essentially is unlimited resources. We are ...

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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the univ...

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I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and ...

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If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of...

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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of ra...

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There is a sacred calling on your life, and the question is: Will you spend your life flittering and...

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Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

It's a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your destiny. It pre...

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Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, becaus...

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Philip LarkinPhilip Larkin: Letters to Monica

So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the le...

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It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed...

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If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without w...

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If you took one-tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you...

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A man going quietly about his business all day long expends far more muscular energy than an athlete...

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Robert MusilThe Man Without Qualities: Vol. 1

The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that ...

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Being cool, having a 'cool' energy is just not attractive to me.

I need my food to keep my energy up, so I can't really diet.

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible su...

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Energy has a way of dissipating, you know; what can be done when you're eleven can often never be do...

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But secluding my experience during that early period was both cowardly and wise. Some things are too...

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Sue Monk KiddThe Dance of the Dissident Daughter

It takes so much energy to keep things at bay.

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Sue Monk KiddThe Secret Life of Bees

How you spend your energy is ultimately what creates who you

After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw...

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So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focuse...

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It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to...

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The difference between one man and another is not mere ability . . . it is energy.

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in ...

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We should not just consume hydrocarbon fuel but use it to develop nuclear energy, hydro power and re...

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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance...

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A nuclear reactor is a proposed "solution" to "the energy problem." But like all big-technological "...

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Wendell BerryThe Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural

One possibility is just to tag along with the fantasists in government and industry who would have u...

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Wendell BerryThe Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic e...

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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, ar...

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Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Ene...

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William BlakeThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to...

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

The Sun is bad enough even while he is single, drying up our marshes with his heat as he does. But w...

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AesopAesop's Fables

Suicide is a confession of failure. And like divorce, it is shrouded in excuses and rationalizations...

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Al AlvarezThe Savage God: A Study of Suicide

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.

It is a special blessing to belong among those who can and may devote their best energies to the con...

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Yoga means addition - addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Meditation is not thinking about the image of a person of the past. It is more about focusing and ch...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its ha...

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The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a f...

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There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

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In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ th...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black r...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment....

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxy...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the ancie...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coast...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek