Spreuken over Kracht

Our power is in our ability to decide.

He has been putting money to work in Scottish Power and stock in Wal-Mart and Anheuser-Busch.

We're negotiating from a position of power because we're not in rough shape right now. It gives us some leverage.

Twenty percent of the world's energy consumption represents the output of around 5,000 huge power stations or 10,000 sizeable power stations.

ELECTRICITY, n. The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else. It is the same thing as lightning, and its famous attempt to strike Dr. Franklin is one of the most picturesque incidents in that great and good man's career. The memory of Dr. Franklin is justly held in great reverence, particularly in France, where a waxen effigy of him was recently on exhibition, bearing the following touching account of his life and services to science:"Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured by savages, of whom not a single fragment was ever recovered."Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The question of its economical application to some purposes is still unsettled, but experiment has already proved that it will propel a street car better than a gas jet and give more light than a horse.