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"If you're aware of injustice, you can either ignore it, say there is nothing you can do about it, complain about it and not do anything, or put your energies into doing something about it."
"I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill."
"To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible."
"Focus all your attention and energy on the achievement of the objectives you are involved with right now."
"The energy born of love is creative - it makes everything it touches new. To see how passionate you are, look around at what you have created."
"It is easier to wiggle the toes than reset the biological clock, but that is just a belief that is rooted in superstition. If we could understand that the human body is a network of information and energy, then we would see that the same principles apply everywhere in the body."
"Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe."
"The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode."
"Passion is the energy that love creates with no object other than itself."
"Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature."
"When energy prices go up, the difficulty of projecting demand also goes up - uncertainty goes up."
"Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy."
"I've only got a fraction of the energy I once had, but I think I probably use it better."
"And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame."
"In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil."
"So on the demand side [for energy], there have been a variety of policies that globally have been way over $50 billion a year of tax credits, raising the price of electricity through things like renewable portfolio standards, so the total amount of money that's gone into sending a price signal to push up demand versus what would happen without it has been gigantic."
"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."
"The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics."
"I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups."
"The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it."
