To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
—Walter Pater, 1873
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At the start there’s always energy.
—Suzan-Lori Parks, 2006I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
—Lorraine Hansberry, 1965There’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!
—Rachel Field, 1939If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.
—Charles Dickens, 1865The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
—Bertrand Russell, 1938Is 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, 1851It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.
—Lewis Strauss, 1954