"Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of
civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover
electricity."
-- L. Frank Baum
"Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the
meter who made the money."
-- Earl
Wilson
"People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented,
didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be
ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon
masters."
-- Bill
Gates
"A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to
result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the
region. "
-- Greg
Walden
"What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that
can light a room."
-- Ray
Charles
"Electricity is actually made
up of extremely tiny particles called electrons that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have
been drinking."
-- Dave BArry
"Wisdom is like electricity. There
is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other
favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a
while.”
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at
all.”
-- William Faulkner
"I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity.
We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can
electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no...”
-- Maya Angelou
"When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is
the electricity that surges between them.”
-- Martin Buber
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