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Letter "E" » Electricity
«Atomic power will make electricity too cheap to meter»
Author: Glenn Seaborg
| About:
Electricity
| Keywords:
atomic, atomic power, electricity, meter, meters
«Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.»
Author: Stephen Leacock
| About:
Electricity
| Keywords:
cheaper, durable, electricity, get into, moths, presume, presumed, presumes, presume to, presuming
«One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Electricity,
Living
| Keywords:
cope, cope with, effects, electric, habitually, overload, overloaded
«Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The question of its economical application to some purposes is still unsettled, but experiment has already proved that it will propel a street car better than a gas»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Electricity
| Keywords:
application, Arts and, Arts and Industries, destined, economical, electricity, industries, propel, propelled, propelling, unsettle, unsettled, unsettles, unsettling
«Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Electricity,
Power
| Keywords:
electricity, natural causes, natural phenomenon, phenomena
«We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Electricity
| Keywords:
An electric, bills, electric, electricity, electric company, figure out, keep company, sending, travels, wired, wires, wiring
«Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Electricity
| Keywords:
actually, drinking, electricity, electron, electrons, extremely, made-up, naked, particles, tiny
«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»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| About:
Electricity,
Heart,
Talent
| Keywords:
cathedral, electricity, electrocute, electrocutes, lamp, lighting-up, light up, plug, plugging, plug in, pump, pumping, pumps
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