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Quote:An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.[T.S. Eliot]

Quote:There are many silly superstitions about lightning, and as a result many people - maybe even you - are terrified of it. You shouldn't worry. Thanks to modern science we now know that lightning is nothing more than huge chunks of electricity that can come out of the sky, anytime, anywhere, and kill you.[Dave Barry]

Quote:Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom, and you will have everything.[Benjamin Franklin]

Quote:It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.[Margaret Thatcher]

Quote:I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.[William F. Buckley]

Quote:It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellow men.[George MacDonald]

Quote:It is fast approaching the point where I don't want to elect anyone stupid enough to want the job.[Erna Bombeck]

Quote:The people who cast the votes don?t decide an election, the people who count the votes do.[Joseph Stalin]

Quote:A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.[Henry Mencken]

Quote:Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. [Henry Kissinger]

Quote:Marriage is the union of disparate elements. Male and female. Yin and yang. Proton and electron. What are we talking about here? Nothing less than the very tension that binds the universe. You see, when we look at marriage, people, we're are looking at creation itself. "I am the sky," says the Hindu bridegroom to the bride. "You are the earth. We are sky and earth united.... You are my husband. You are my wife. My feet shall run because of you. My feet shall dance because of you. My heart shall beat because of you. My eyes see because of you. My mind thinks because of you and I shall love because of you." [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider]

Quote:Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. [George Bernard Shaw]

Quote:Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking. [Dave Barry]

Quote:Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame. [Oscar Levant]

Quote:Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. [Friedrich von Schiller]



Definitions of: elect

Definition: Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.

Definition: Chosen as the object of mercy or divine favor; set apart to eternal life.

Definition: Chosen to an office, but not yet actually inducted into it; as, bishop elect; governor or mayor elect.

Definition: To pick out; to select; to choose.

Definition: To select or take for an office; to select by vote; as, to elect a representative, a president, or a governor.

Definition: To designate, choose, or select, as an object of mercy or favor.

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