Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
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Desire is the very essence of man.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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Go West, young man.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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Your man Flavor Flav is living!
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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
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I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.
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We shall fight to the last to free our Motherland.
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I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
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When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.
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His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
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Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.
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Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible?
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I start where the last man left off.
