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Quote by Stephen Leacock
Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it. – Stephen Leacock

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If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldnt use, I would hire a professor and get some text books. – Stephen Leacock

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Its called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy. – Stephen Leacock

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Its a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them. – Louis C. K.

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To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way. – David Schwimmer

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One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations. – Philip Emeagwali

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An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction. – Johannes Stark

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