Charles Proteus Steinmetz Quotes
Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.
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The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.
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I can be not showered and dressed like a slob, but my lip gloss will be on!
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I use debit cards for everyday purchases, as I don't believe in credit cards. But this has caused problems, especially with American touring, because I refuse to have a credit card - and in America you can't pay for anything on a debit card.
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I'm at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I've given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I'm not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it's kind of corny. But I got the essentials.
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I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.
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When you get told that you have a disease, it's like: 'Really? Nah, it's all right. I don't believe that. It must be something else, I'm just making an excuse, let me push harder.'
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Everybody laughs all the time, and some of the worst things that happen make you laugh 'cause it's a defense isn't it, I suppose.
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You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.
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We don't look at records, but if we can make history in this club, we will. It's not only about Chelsea, this league.
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Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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A child growing up in an excessively safe environment may never learn that he is one - not until he gets married and has a wife to tell him so.
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El corazón es un infinito de pesadísimas cadenas, encadenando puñaditos de aire.
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I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.
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How valiant to deny the importance of money when it is had in abundance.
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My mother always bought our birthday gifts.
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The strength of a good friendship that goes the distance will be unconditional love.
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Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials.
