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"There were lots of little boys having their bar mitzvahs all over the world, and they sent me tapes of some of them that they interviewed, probably six or seven little boys, and there was something about Mendel. I just loved his little face. I loved the energy of Mendel."
"Man's brain may be compared to an electric battery...a group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery."
"When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness."
"In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue."
"Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market."
"[According to the rigid dogma] we have to believe the United States would have so-called liberated Iraq even if its main products were lettuce and pickles and the main energy resource of the world were in central Africa."
"First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it."
"The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it."
"Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources."
"I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work."
"I suppose if you could have only one thing, it would be that-energy. Without it, you haven't got a thing."
"Strong impulses are but another name for energy. Energy may be turned to bad uses; but more good may always be made of an energetic nature, than of an indolent and impassive one."
"The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty."
"It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on their hind legs, observing the world through pairs of flexible little lenses, periodically supplying themselves with energy by pushing organic substances through holes in their faces, who see nothing fabulous whatever about themselves."
"We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed."
"Being impeccable with your word is the correct use of your energy; it means to use your energy in the direction of truth and love for yourself."
"I got a kick out of the stands when they would heckle me. I would take the energy from that."
"Any kind of political campaign that taps the kind of energy that nothing else can reach would generate a tremendous high for everybody involved in it."
"All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him."
"…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing."
