Thomas A. Edison Quotes
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
Quotes to Explore
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I love the smell of freshly cut grass. It takes me back to summers in Maine.
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Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests.
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It's not an accident that musicians become musicians and engineers become engineers: it's what they're born to do. If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.
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No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job....Poetry..remains one person talking to another....no poet can write a poem of amplitude unless he is the master of the prosaic.
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Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world.
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I've never been naturally fashion conscious. I'm the kind of person who sees a whole outfit in a magazine, runs out and buys it but looks like a clown.
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There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
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Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.
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I'm a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it's my grass. And that is satisfying.
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The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.
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Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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I tried to get the word out to people who are information hubs in their communities, because they could propagate the call quickly. One challenge is that breaking science fiction means, well, breaking science fiction. Many communities of colour have a different approach to narratives of science.
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I have seen lightning light fires in the long grass ahead of me as I have ridden. No wonder the Aborigines tremble when the sky rumbles!
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Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.
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Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.
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I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.
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The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water. If it could do the one, it could do the other; it inevitably did both. When we can take green from grass, blue from heaven, and red from blood, we have already an enchanter's power.
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Never try to reason with a man who can see the blade swinging for his head.
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It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.
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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
