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"Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere."
"In every man s life there lies latent energy. There is, however, a spark that, if kindled, will set the whole being afire, and he will become a human dynamo, capable of accomplishing almost anything to which he aspires."
"So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work... Their scientific meaning and purpose now clear to me: food to increase the mass, peace to diminish the retarding force, and work to increase the force accelerating human movement."
"We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement."
"The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy."
"You have to gather your energy together...conserving it and insulating it from dissipation in every direction other than that of your purpose."
"The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world."
"Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy."
"All peoples everywhere should have free energy sources."
"If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider."
"A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our personality, and generating a programmed response and an implicit set of expectations."
"I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in."
"Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion."
"Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you."
"The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself."
"We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change."
"Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success."
"Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost always unreliable."
"I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms."
"Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in kind."
