"Electricity is but yet a new agent for the arts and manufactures, and, doubtless, generations unborn will regard with interest this century, in which it has been first applied to the wants of mankind."

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Source : Alfred SMEE (F.R.S., Surgeon to the Bank of England.) (1851). “Elements of Electro-Metallurgy, or the art of working in metals by the galvanic fluid”, p.8

Alfred Smee

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“You work here [on the farm] simply without philosophizing; sometimes the work is hard and crowded with pettiness. But at times you feel a surge of cosmic exaltation, like the clear light of the heavens... . And you, too, seem to be taking root in the soil which you are digging, to be nourished by the rays of the sun, to share life with the tiniest blade of grass, with each flower; living in nature's depths, you seem then to rise and grow into the vast expanse of the universe.”
“Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an endâ€¦ The exclusivism of there being only one way in which we can be saved, the idea that there is a single religious group that is in sole possession of the truthâ€”that is the world as we know it that must pass away. What is the kingdom? It lies in our realization of the ubiquity of the divine presence in our neighbors, in our enemies, in all of us.”
“It would be a fine thing, in which I hardly dare believe, to pass our lives near each other, hypnotized by our dreams.”
“I find it more comfortable to say I'm an atheist, and for that I probably have someone like Dawkins to thank.”
“Who are my influences? Everybody.”

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“Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.”
“Because he's a character who's looking for his own identity, [He-Man is] an interesting role for an actor.”
“Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.”

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