"Purpose directs energy, and purpose makes energy."

-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Energy Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“Itâ€™s a big raised platform at the end of the square, with steps running up to it.â€ Like a stage?â€ Evanlyn suggested. â€œMaybe theyâ€™re planning to put on a play?â€ Or an execution,â€ Horace said.”
“The fact that this chain of life existed [at volcanic vents on the seafloor] in the black cold of the deep sea and was utterly independent of sunlight-previously thought to be the font of all Earth's life-has startling ramifications. If life could flourish there, nurtured by a complex chemical process based on geothermal heat, then life could exist under similar conditions on planets far removed from the nurturing light of our parent star, the Sun.”

Source : "Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe". Book by Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee, 2003.
“I was obsessed with vampires when I was 13 or 14.”
“The real menace of our Republic is the invisible Government which like a giant Octopus, sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states, and nation.”
“By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.”
“I am confident, however old-fashioned this may sound, that funds left in the hands of the public will come into the Exchequer with interest at the time in the future when we need them.”

Source : "Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council", (p. 51), February 28, 1962.
“Theater really is what I know and what I was exposed to the most. That's really the main artistry that I love about acting. It's what I've experienced the most and what I trained in. I'd say theater is my love.”
“What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.”

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