Nikola Tesla Quotes

I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear.

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• I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.

  

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• She was starting to feel a little like a hamburger at a dieters’ convention. Nobody was likely to snack on her, but absolutely everybody noticed she was edible.

  

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• When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smooths her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone.

  

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• Those who won't accept evil never get anything good.

  

  August Strindberg
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• We lack faith in *what* exists within us because we lack faith in *Who* exists within us.

  

  Marianne Williamson
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• It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
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• Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.

  

  William Shakespeare
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• I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured.

  

  Jane Austen
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• Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself.

  

  Hermann Hesse
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• When your spirit is alive, when somebody has got a strong spirit, they could be on the verge of death physically, and they'll leak out more life.

  

  Anthony Robbins
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• The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

  

  Sarah Bernhardt
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• If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
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• I'm very dependant. I fall apart regularly.

  

  Erica Jong
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• If the day ever comes when I think something is okay simply because district schools do it, I hope my board fires me.

  

  Eva Moskowitz
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• Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23 there is a verse that says, 'Surely, yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil

  

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• I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• I think abstraction is a very rich area. And it is upsetting that people seem to have some fear of it. I'm constantly making these statements about how you should just look at it and react to it on your own; just relax and let go.

  

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• 'MMMBop' took about a year to actually get completed. The chorus idea had really been around for a long time, and then we built the song around it.

  

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• I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear.

  

  Nikola Tesla
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