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Energy Quotes
"Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence."
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"When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now."
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"I don't look at this as a religious based thing. To me this is energy based."
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"We get more oil from Canada than any country."
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"Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere."
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"Shane sat like a statue if a statue wore headphones and radiated angry coiled tension that made hair stand up on a person's arms. She felt like she was sitting next to an unexploded bomb, and given all of the physics she'd had, she understood what that meant. Talk about potential energy."
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"And when these advances are made, hydrogen can fill critical energy needs beyond transportation. Hydrogen can also be used to heat and generate electricity for our homes. The future possibilities of this energy source are enormous."
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"But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing."
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"They're the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and they will not do that. They will not pull the trigger."
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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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"I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living."
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"What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days."
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"There is no reason not to support energy exploration in ANWR."
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"I've always had way too much energy so I'm always looking for new things to do to channel that energy."
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"Penn State in 1955 became the first university to be issued a federal license to operate a nuclear reactor, which it continues to use for studies in the peaceful uses of atomic energy and the training of nuclear industry personnel."
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"When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen."
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"A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created."
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"Stable energy prices and enhanced national security will only come when we increase domestic energy resources, which was accomplished today with the opening of ANWR."
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"We do most of what we do out of our sexual energy and our sexual needs."
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"With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing."
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"I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever."
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"There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China."
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"Let's face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the same energy, the same staff, if the only thing that's different between you and me is the products we can get, and I can get a better product than you, I'm going to be a better chef."
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"Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy."
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"It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else."
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"The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure."
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"I've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem."
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"As federal lawmakers, we have a responsibility to set a precedent for energy efficient practices."
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"The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources."
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"Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics."
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"It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable."
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"The U.S. now imports over half of its oil supply from the Middle East. This dangerous dependence on foreign energy sources is an issue of national security."
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"Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured."
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"Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can be. Drill, and frack, and lease, and license, unleash in every way the jobs potential in the enormous energy resources we have been denying ourselves."
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"It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation."
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"In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil."
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