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“The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it... and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.” John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address
“Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts, and all Roosevelt's friends know that his restless and combative energy was more than abnormal.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“Under the new conditions of perfect comfort and security, that restless energy, that with us is strength, would become weakness.” H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
“This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then come languor and decay.” H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
“Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you're able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can't you use the same energy to stay well and busy?” J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
“Everybody’s born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs each person from the inside.” Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Should you find yourself in a chronically-leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“I had really only three assets: I was keenly interested, I accepted every challenge and every opportunity to learn more, and I had great energy and self-discipline.” Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“You know, it’s quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don’t do it.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
“And it is you, spirit—with will and energy, and virtue and purity—that I want: not alone your brittle frame.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“If we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on Earth, it was because here in this land we unleashed the energy and individual genius of man to a greater extent than has ever been done before.” Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address
“That a particular molecular motion does give rise to a state of consciousness is experimentally certain; but the how and why of the process are just as inexplicable as in the case of the communication of kinetic energy by impact.” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“Where there is energy to command well enough, obedience never fails.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“He is energetic only in evading responsibility.” Isaac Asimov, Foundation
“My dear Watson, you were born to be a man of action. Your instinct is always to do something energetic.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
“I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love. But the power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.” Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
“Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.” Dan Simmons, Hyperion

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