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Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

—Germaine Greer, 1970

I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.

—Lorraine Hansberry, 1965

Fire destroys that which feeds it.

—Simone Weil, c. 1940

What is life but organized energy?

—Arthur C. Clarke, 1958

Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.

—George Gershwin, 1933

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

—Susanne K. Langer, 1942

The brightest light burns the quickest.

—Olive Beatrice Muir, 1900

Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

—Isadora Duncan, c. 1902

At the start there’s always energy.

—Suzan-Lori Parks, 2006

To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

—Walter Pater, 1873

It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.

—Lewis Strauss, 1954

Is it a fact—or have I dreamed it—that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?

—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851

Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

—John Morley, 1872