"Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?"

David R. Brower, American Environmentalist

Energy, Generations, Luxury, Present

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"Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?"

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"Challenges are inevitable. Happiness is optional."

Maddy Malhotra, British Poet

Energy, Power, Force, Flow, Movement

"Lakhs of families in the country are deprived of energy connectivity. Fruits of development will not reach the common man until energy connectivity reaches every last household of the country. In the age of globalization, we have no option but to make a quantum leap in energy production and connectivity"

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"The more energy taken, the less energy that is left for us to implement our goals and the smaller the probability of realization of our innate potential."

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"People who cast a negative energy can make us feel doubtful, devalued, and disrespected. In response, we contract and are left cold as our awesome energy evaporates in their shadow. Downward emotional spirals ensue."

Susan C. Young, American Author

Energy, Truth, Power, Regret, Wisdom

"A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Energy, Pursuit, Excitement, Life

"There is a force that drives everything in this universe;you may call it anything you like, names that fit in tongue;when you're close to it, you have the power to do anything."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Relentless enthusiasm keeps us young."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Energy, Enthusiasm, Youth

"Desire. Enthusiasm. Purpose. Pleasure. Delight. Peace. Power. However you define passion, it is at the heart of your motivation."

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"One of the most compelling things about you is the energy you put forth-whether it is positive, negative, or neutral. And that is only the beginning."

Susan C. Young, American Author

Energy, Presence, Truth, Power

"Science proves that what appears to be solid is simply moving at a slower rate. Whereas, what is moving, grooving, and flowing, has a higher rate of vibration. We as humans work the same way."

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"Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem."

People

"We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost."

Being

"What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon?"

Bed

"The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now."

Future

"Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time."

Love

"Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field."

Earth

"I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams."

Power

"The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right."

Conservation

"It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it."

Living

"It's very hard for me to know what to say about fusion right now, inasmuch as it is not yet scientifically feasible. I just can't understand how so many people are able to predict so much about something that still isn't scientifically possible."

People