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• By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world.

  Johannes Stark

  Taken, Humanity, Steps

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• For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta.

  Johannes Stark

  Light, Atoms, Wave

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• In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

  Uwe Boll

  Revenge, Stories, Alive

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• At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist.

  George Duke

  Gigs, Ends, Violinist

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• No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Music, Piano, Acoustics

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• Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Guitar, My Favorite, Collections

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• Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.

  Hu Shih

  Light, Vegetables, Oil

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• When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass.

  David Sanborn

  Play, Nuance, Acoustics

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• I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and Im it. Im the electric light.

  Chubby Checker

  Light, Twists, Compare

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• Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Electric Shock, Discipline

  "The PWOT Bill Gates Interview". Interview with Andrew Lephter, slated.org. April 5, 2008.

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• An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction.

  Johannes Stark

  Positive, Negative, Atoms

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• When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Inspirational, Teacher, School

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• Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

  Lydia M. Child

  Electric Power, Genius, Earth

  "Marius amid the Ruins of Carthage". Poem by Lydia Maria Child,

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• It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus when he first saw the Western shore, Pizarro when he stared at the Pacific Ocean, Franklin when the electric spark came from the string of his kite, Galileo when he first turned his telescope to the heavens. Such moments are also granted to students in the abstract regions of thought, and high among them must be placed the morning when Descartes lay in bed and invented the method of co-ordinate geometry.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Morning, Ocean, Adventure

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• Ohm (a distinguished mathematician, be it noted) brought into order a host of puzzling facts connecting electromotive force and electric current in conductors, which all previous electricians had only succeeded in loosely binding together qualitatively under some rather vague statements. Even as late as 20 years ago, "quantity" and "tension" were much used by men who did not fully appreciate Ohm's law.

  Oliver Heaviside

  Science, Men, Order

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• The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Character, Science, Age

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• In 1891, during the Presidency of William Henry Harrison [Benjamin Harrison], electric lights were first installed in the White House, the residence of the leaders of our country. At that time, commercial electricity was not economically feasible, but President Harrison wanted to affirm his confidence in the technological capability of our country.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Technology, White

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1979). “Jimmy Carter”

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• Main Street, U.S.A. is America at the turn of the century--the crossroads of an era. The gas lamps and the electric lamp--the horse-drawn car and auto car. Main Street is everyone's hometown- the heart line of America.

  Walt Disney

  Horse, Heart, America

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• I'm like, 'Would you be the person in the room that would boo when Dylan went electric? I know I wouldn't. Or are you the person that left The Beatles after 'She Loves You,' or 'Drive My Car?' You weren't on board for 'Revolution 9' or 'Day In The Life,' were you?'

  Regina Spektor

  Love You, Car, Boards

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 21, 2006.

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• You could walk around behind the typist and read the text, which was about hearing, and what you heard was the sound of the typewriter. Of course, this was a pre-electric typewriter, a typewriter that made noise.

  Vito Acconci

  Typewriters, Sound, Noise

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

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• Today we no longer ask what really goes on in an atom; we ask what is likely to be observed-and with what likelihood-when we subject atoms to any specified influences such as light or heat, magnetic fields or electric currents.

  Otto Robert Frisch

  Science, Light, Atoms

  Otto Robert Frisch (1980). “What Little I Remember”, p.20, Cambridge University Press

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• The sky was electric blue above the trees but the yard felt dark. Stephanie went to the edge of the lawn and sat her forehead on her knees. The grass and soil were still warm from the day. She wanted to cry but she couldn't. The feeling was too deep.

  Jennifer Egan

  Dark, Blue, Sky

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.102, Anchor

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• Someone should have a record that doesn't have any singing. It's my favorite Miles Davis record. I love hanging out in the summer, in New York, when it's miserably hot. I love electric Miles Davis in the summer. Jack Johnson, the songwriting especially, is a premier example of that. It always makes me feel hot in the city. It's also nice to have something not yelling in your ear. For me, as a lyricist, it's nice to put on something without any words.

  Craig Finn

  Summer, New York, Nice

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• The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's guidance in them, the power of rendering surgical operations painless, the measures for preserving public health, and for preventing or mitigating epidemics,-such are among the more important practical results of pure scientific research, with which mankind have been blessed and States enriched.

  Richard Owen

  Blessed, Science, Epidemics

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• I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.

  Steve Martin

  Inspirational, Funny, Dog

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