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“If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.”
George Gobal
“Electricity is really just organized lightning.”
George Carlin
“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.”
Dave Barry
“Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.”
Charles Dickens
“My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.”
Rodney Dangerfield
“When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, you see wires. Until the current passes through them, there will be no light. That wire is you and me. The current is God. We have the power to let the current pass through us, use us, to produce the light of the world, Jesus, in us. Or we can refuse to be used and allow darkness to spread.”
Mother Teresa
“Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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”
Maya Angelou
“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.”
Marshall McLuhan
“Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn't go far didn't see him shoot across that floor. I told him he was grounded.”
Tim Allen