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"No price is too great to pay for inner peace. Peace is the harmonious control of life. It is vibrant with life-energy. It is a power that easily transcends all our worldly knowledge. Yet it is not separate from our earthly existence. If we open the right avenues within, this peace can be felt here and now."
"Whether you eat meat of not, you can be part of this decision to limit the meat industry destroying our planet's resources."
"The only way to permanently install a new habit is to direct so much energy toward it that the old one slips away like an unwelcome house guest."
"Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections."
"The most precious resource for businesspeople is not their time. It's their energy. Manage it well."
"You can't become legendary if you have no energy."
"I've never seen electricity, that's why I don't pay for it"
"This is pretty much the infrastructural stuff that comes along with large quantities of energy. Whichever technology we are looking at has serious hazardous issues."
"You can't get a pay raise when you're angry. People will react to the negative energy and will resist you."
"Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon."
"We can't tell an electorate...when you have something like in excess of 300 million people without any access to electricity at all that you have to put a cap on this."
"Indeed, your biggest challenge may be to fully harness your strengths. You may be so busy trying to appear like a zestful, reward-sensitive extrovert that you undervalue your own talents, or feel underestimated by those around you. But when you’re focused on a project that you care about, you probably find that your energy is boundless."
"One could plausibly argue that it is for quite sound reasons that the whole capacity for sexual ecstasy is inaccessible to most people - given that sexuality is something, like nuclear energy, which may prove amenable to domestication through scruple, but then again may not."
"Throw overboard all idea of jealousy and egotism, once for all. Come on to the practical field with tremendous energy; to work, in the fullness of strength! As to the rest, the Lord will point out the way."
"You have to have an almost boundless reservoir of energy and interest to enter politics because quite often it's thankless and fruitless and you can't accomplish much."
"...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly."
"I was kind of overwhelmed by the idea that we are just balls of energy and that we have imposed terms on feelings."
"Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics."
"[With quantum computers] you can calculate how many bits are in the universe, how much energy it takes to flip them, how much energy exists, and use that to rule out lots of things about the universe's history. Anything that takes more bit flips couldn't have happened."
"My new album that I'm creating, which is finished pretty much, was written with this new instinctual energy that I've developed getting to know my fans. They protect me, so now it's my destiny to protect them."
