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"Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008...That’s why, over the past six years, we’ve done more than ever before to combat climate change, from the way we produce energy, to the way we use it."
"A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future."
"A low-carbon, clean energy economy can be an engine of growth for decades to come."
"The more we are using clean energy, renewable energy sources, the less environmentally problematic facilities end up being a problem for everybody, but particularly for folks who have to suffer the consequences of some of these facilities."
"When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy - not when you merely wish passively to be able to obtain an objective."
"Many people live with a tormentor in their head that continuously attacks and punishes them and drains them of vital energy. It is the cause of untold misery and unhappiness, as well as of disease."
"The state of presence is the only state in which creative energy is available to you."
"Whenever you are engaged in something and there is an outpouring of energy, you are in enthusiasm."
"Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down."
"Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used up defending yesterday."
"We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess."
"Habit: The great economizer of energy."
"I have far more enthusiasm in life than I have actual energy. In my excitement, I routinely take on more that I can physically or emotionally handle, which causes me to break down in quite predictable displays of dramatic exhaustion. You will be the one burdened with the job of mopping me up every time I've overextended myself and then fallen apart. This will be unbelievably tedious. I apologize in advance."
"If they had built the Energy East pipeline to transport beer, we'd be okay."
"The primary means of energy generation is going to solar. It will at least be a plurality, and probably be a slight majority in the long term."
"It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will."
"Once you envision something and the Universal forces come into play to help you in the creation of it, there's never again going to be enough action for you to keep up with it. You can't use the Energy that creates worlds to create a situation and then find the action to keep up with it. You have to keep envisioning. You have to keep imagining it better."
"When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy."
"I was told that it was cool to fall in love, and that period was nothing like that to me. I gave too much of my time and energy to another person and they did the same to me and we started burning out against each other. And that is what is termed love."