- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Energy Quotes
Effort, and the direction it takes.
This set treats energy both literally and as a metaphor for drive, from a historical account of wartime industrial effort to one person's plain admission of having plenty of interest and desire to spare. Readers focused on infrastructure topics may prefer our Energy Policy quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Calculations
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you do calculations using quantum mechanics, even when you are calculating something perfectly sensible like the energy of an atomic state, you get an answer that is infinite. This means you are wrong - but how do you deal with that? Is there something wrong with the theory, or something wrong with the way you are doing the calculation?
- Direct Connection
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- Nov 07, 2020
Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
On Russia, President Trump reverses the weakness of Obama, who turned a blind eye as Putin marched into Crimea and Ukraine by hitting Putin where it hurts - on energy.
- Executing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our customers, system, and shareholders are best served when we direct our focus and energy towards executing against these critical customer expectations.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also believe that Hurricane Katrina did reveal a weakness in our energy supply systems, highlighting the reliance this country has on the gulf coast for our energy resources.
- Energy Bill
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nearly every policy during the Obama years was anti-growth: tax increases; minimum-wage hikes; ObamaCare; Dodd-Frank regulations; massive debt spending; the Paris climate change accord; an EPA assault against American energy; massive expansions of food-stamps programs and more.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big problem for atomic energy is that it can't compete on price with the new age of cheap shale gas and, to a lesser extent, clean coal.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few nations have been as reliant on nuclear power as Korea. In many ways, cheap and reliable atomic energy helped make possible the 'miracle on the Han River' - i.e., the swift post-World War II economic surge of Korea.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
Using cheap and efficient energy makes every other American industry more productive, and thus makes American employers far more competitive in global markets. Productivity creates higher paying jobs in America; it doesn't destroy them.
- Donald Trump
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- Nov 07, 2020
Donald Trump is producing the kind of shoot-the-moon economic recovery that we last saw under Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. He's copied a lot of the Reagan playbook: Deregulate, cut taxes, promote American energy.
- Considerable
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- Nov 07, 2020
America has the potential to lead the world in energy production and, in the process, to create millions of jobs and trillions of dollars in output - generating considerable tax revenue.
- Today
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- Nov 07, 2020