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A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts.

~Elvis Presley

Topics: Because Business Concert Concerts Crowd Electricity Exciting Favorite Favorite Part Live Me Part Stage

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Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign.

~Erik Brynjolfsson

Topics: Because Before Complementary Drive Economic Economic Growth Electricity Engine Example Factory General Growth Innovations Like Most Purpose Redesign Steam Technologies Technology Yes

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For industry to settle in a country, you first need electricity; for electricity, you need some trained workers; for trained workers, you need some schools; for schools you need some money; for money, you need some industry.

~Evan Davis

Topics: Country Electricity First Industry Money Need Schools Settle Some Trained Workers You

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If I were to live in Africa, serving the poor, the number-one thing I'd miss wouldn't be running water or electricity - it would be style... being able to get dressed up and feel beautiful.

~Evangeline Lilly

Topics: Able Africa Beautiful Being Dressed Electricity Feel Get Live Miss Poor Running Serving Style Thing Up Water Were Would

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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.

~Fabrizio Moreira

Topics: Allow Average Average Person Before Being Describe Electricity Engine Fly Granted His Humans Hundreds Hundreds Of Years Ideas Imagine Internal Invention Leonardo Machines Many Other Person Take Take For Granted Things Time Today Trying Would Years You

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When I look at the many energy-using sectors - such as businesses, households, electricity generators, the transportation sector - I see that the business sector is the one which uses the energy efficiency potential the highest, because they know that using energy more efficiently will also reduce their costs.

~Fatih Birol

Topics: Also Because Business Businesses Costs Efficiency Efficiently Electricity Energy Energy Efficiency Generator Highest Households Know Look Many More Potential Reduce Sector Sectors See Transportation Uses Using Which Will I See

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Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America.

~Felix Bloch

Topics: About Academic Also America Consider Debt Electricity Europe Even Explaining Facts Few Here Instead Mechanics Nor Only Owe Permission Representing Say Shall Sober Sweden Want Which Words You Your Youth

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When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.

~Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Topics: About Bedroom Deep Electricity Jersey Lived Mother New New Jersey Seven Sometimes Were

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Americans are already paying the price for record heat waves, dirty air, and an unstable climate. We need to fight these threats with every weapon we have, and the electricity industry has to do its fair share.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Air American Climate Dirty Electricity Every Fair Fair Share Fight Heat Industry Need Paying Price Record Share Threats Unstable Waves Weapon

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The biggest thing that concerns me is when we start getting countries using cybercrime to shut down infrastructure, electricity, communications systems, the Internet, et cetera.

~Frank Abagnale

Topics: Biggest Biggest Thing Communications Concerns Countries Down Electricity Getting Infrastructure Internet Me Shut Start Systems Thing Using

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