#electric

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

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We're investing record sums on buses and trains. We have a huge programme to encourage people to walk and cycle, and everyone up to and including the PM has been looking closely at how we can promote electric vehicles, hybrids, and other technologies. ↗

— Geoff Hoon

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The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair. ↗

— J. Edgar Hoover

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Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge. ↗

— Carl D. Anderson

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An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction. ↗

— Johannes Stark

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I could build and roof a house, though electricity is not my thing. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

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Ampere was the Newton of Electricity. ↗

— James C. Maxwell

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Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection. ↗

— Dan Fogelberg

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I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really. ↗

— Sadie Frost

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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.

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