Conflicts are increasingly causing devastation in densely populated urban centres rather than open battlefields, creating a host of new problems through the cumulative impact from the destruction of vital services like water and electricity.
Peter Maurer
WaterProblemsImpactElectricity
It's unwise in business to have one client or two clients. It's unwise in electricity to have one source or two sources.
Scott Pruitt
BusinessElectricityClientsTwo
A computer, by definition, cannot be held accountable for anything because there is no mechanism to hold it to account, short of turning off the electricity supply or destroying the hardware. Only humans can be accountable.
Mark Walport
ShortElectricityAnythingHoldOff
They can't do without electricity. They can do with less electricity.
Kenneth Lay
ElectricityWithoutLess
My mother did not have a toaster oven and would toast bread in the oven, which I thought was stupid. They didn't do cars and electricity, that kind of stuff.
James Turrell
MotherStupidThoughtElectricity
We lived on the farm, and our mode of transportation was wagon and team. No electricity. I'm the seventh son of 12 kids - eight boys and four girls. Mom and Dad handled that very well. But I wanted to get out.
Glen Campbell
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A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts.
Elvis Presley
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I will never, ever forget the electricity I felt the first time I listened to the 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - and many times since.
Betsy Hodges
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My family's challenges meant we lived hand to mouth. There were weeks when we had neither electricity nor heating.
Theo Paphitis
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An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job.
Newt Gingrich
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When your whole system, your whole civilized system goes down, this is pretty much what you get left with. We have no communications, no running water, no electricity, no real help.
Kathleen Blanco
WaterElectricityHelpYouDownGet
In the 1960s, I personally lived the resounding impact of President Nasser's vision of constructing Aswan's High Dam as a 'national project' for controlling the Nile irrigation and the production of electricity.
Ahmed Zewail
VisionImpactElectricityProject
Our increasingly electrified, electronic, and data-driven society places steadily rising demand on reliable baseload power - that is, on electricity available 24/7/365. Servers never sleep, nor does air conditioning during hot nights, and in Asia's megacities, subways and electric trains take only brief naps between midnight and 5 A.M.
Vaclav Smil
PowerSleepSocietyElectricityHot
When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone.
Sally Mann
WaterElectricityFarmPhoneLiving
Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.
Lamar S. Smith
EnergyElectricityOilNaturalGas
Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
Fabrizio Moreira
TodayTimeIdeasFlyElectricity
At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.
Johannes Stark
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The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.
Angela Bassett
TimeSchoolHigh SchoolElectricity
How can the country that created electricity, the light bulb, modern cinema as we know it, and the Oscar Meyer Weenie Whistle not be purely awesome?
Steven Crowder
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Historically, we have lived in a nation of energy dependence. Dependence on others for our heating and electricity, and for our fuel for transportation.
Mike Pompeo
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It was important to feel that you were resisting the fascism around you. But we had no electricity to watch movies. We were imagining our movies.
Jasmila Zbanic
FeelElectricityYouMoviesFascism
I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.
Cherie Lunghi
SleepCitySmallFreeElectricity
The electricity tariff in Punjab is highest in north India, and it should be decreased.
Preneet Kaur
ElectricityIndiaTariffHighest
In the south of France the phones cut in and out, the electricity isn't particularly reliable. I think many people would get very irritated with that life.
Peter Mayle
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