Elizabeth Taylor
Actress
"So much is said with the electricity of the eyes, the intensity of a whisper. Less is more."
Electricity quotes
Electricity
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Mother Meera
Spiritual Teacher
"Like electricity, the Light is everywhere, but one must know how to activate it. I have come for that."
Thomas A. Edison
Inventor
"We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles."
Barack Obama
Politician
"Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket."
Marshall McLuhan
Philosopher, Media Theorist
"Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes."
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"Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel each other."
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"If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love."
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"The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity."
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"Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil."
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"He had that rare weird electricity about him - that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally."
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"Electricity comes from other planets."
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"It took me a bit to realize how big the changes have been in the last decade. In so many places - electricity from solar and wind is cheaper than electricity from fossil fuels, and now the batteries are coming down in costs very quickly. So it's very exciting news that needed to be told."
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"It's either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don't know what it is, but whatever it is, I've got it."
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"Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience."
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"If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity."
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