"Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy."
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"I just try to play as hard as I can every possession. If you're aware and you're high-energy, the ball will eventually bounce your way and you'll be able to make plays."
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"One-third of the world, it has been said, may be free- -but one-third is the victim of cruel repression--and the other one- third is rocked by the pangs of poverty, hunger and envy. More energy is released by the awakening of these new nations than by the fission of the atom itself."
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"Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy."
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"I admire many entrepreneurs. They bring energy, excitement, youthful enthusiasm. What they lack in process, they make up for in gumption."
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"We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action."
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"Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear."
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"I hope we can all agree that, instead of continuing to subsidize yesterday's energy sources. We need to invest in tomorrow's."
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"The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy."
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"I want to control our own energy by developing oil and natural gas but also the energy sources of the future."
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"Postponing doing the really interesting things in life for later, when you don't have the energy."
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"Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed."
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"Whether you call the principle of existence "God," "matter," "energy," or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have merely changed a symbol. Eastern and Western Thinking, 1938"
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"I have excessive energy, tremendous energy. I have a sense of people. I can feel them, pretty much so, in a short time. I'm not afraid of death. I'm just not afraid of anything."
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"You always have energy to do what you are passionate about."
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"The next big invention that will change the way we live should be things like ways of generating energy like electricity."
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"Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing."
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"We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late. We can save our planet and also boost our economy at the same time."
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"So swift, silent and furtive were his movements like those of a trained bloodhound picking out a scent, that I could not but think what a terrible criminal he would have made had he turned his energy and sagacity against the law instead of exerting them in its defense. -Dr. Watson, The Sign of the Four"
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"There is no use for energy of any kind whatsoever unless there is a plan back of it."
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