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... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.
The sensations of dismemberment flow through the forceps like an electric current.
Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed.
The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current.
Lightning seems a thought, which instead of being attached to a brain, is attached to an electric current.
Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear.
To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.
This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the moment passing like an electric current through the brush in my hand.
Sometimes the words against a selfish have to be sharp, straight and blunt; it is very much like after the failure of all medications to cure a mental patient the only option left to revive him now is to give him a shock treatment through an electric current.