Lightning

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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

Lightning is an atmospheric discharge of electricity usually accompanied by thunder, which typically occurs during thunderstorms, and sometimes during volcanic eruptions or dust storms; this page is for quotes about lightning, or where lightning is used as a metaphor.

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• Did you know that I was struck by lightning seven times?
  • Mr. Daws, oft-repeated question in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

• He seized the lightning from Heaven and the scepter from the Tyrants.
  • Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune, on Benjamin Franklin, as quoted in The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Vol. X (March 1811)

• The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
  • Mark Twain, as quoted in Deduction : Introductory Symbolic Logic (2002) by Daniel A. Bonevac, p. 56

• Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the work.
  • Mark Twain, as quoted in Living Like Benjamin : Making Dreams Come True (2007) by Brad Borden, p. 123

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