Power Failure Quotes

• Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

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  Douglas Coupland

  Failure   Light   Sometimes  

  4796

• Day and night gifts keep pelting down on us. If we were aware of this, gratefulness would overwhelm us. But we go through life in a daze. A power failure makes us aware of what a gift electricity is; a sprained ankle lets us appreciate walking as a gift, a sleepless night, sleep. How much we are missing in life by noticing gifts only when we are suddenly deprived of them.

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  David Steindl-Rast

  Sleep   Night   Appreciate  

  4918

• The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.

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  Russell Baker

  Environmental   Society   Age  

  4927

• Computer security can simply be protecting your equipment and files from disgruntled employees, spies, and anything that goes bump in the night, but there is much more. Computer security helps ensure that your computers, networks, and peripherals work as expected all the time, and that your data is safe in the event of hard disk crash or a power failure resulting from an electrical storm. Computer security also makes sure no damage is done to your data and that no one is able to read it unless you want them to.

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  Bruce Schneier

  Night   Damage Is Done   Data  

  477

• Happiness is watching the TV at your girlfriend's house during a power failure.

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  Bob Hope

  Girlfriend   Sex   House  

  2012

• After absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power failures, broken water mains, stalled trains, school shutdowns, muggers, drug addicts, neo-Nazis, and rapists. The fact is that one can come home in the evening, on a lucky day, without having encountered more than one or two of these phenomena.

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  Barbara Tuchman

  School   Home   Two  

  2226

• Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance.

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  J.R. Miller

  Perseverance   Persevere   Reason  

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