Thomas A. Edison Quotes
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
Gary Bauer
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We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.
Dan Quayle
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
Malcolm Mclaren
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There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
Wayne Dyer
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I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.
Faith Hill
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
L. J. Smith
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I'd sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn't sound like dying cats.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Napoleon Hill
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I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to.
Park Geun-hye
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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
Ralph Fiennes
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Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.
Kate Reardon
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Across energy, food, transportation, housing, and all of that, very little of our progress is going to be through getting people to voluntarily consume less. People resist that tremendously. What we have to do, if we want to succeed, is provide more of the clean, non-polluting, climate-safe options in all of these.
Ramez Naam
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I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
Uta Hagen
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.
Dambisa Moyo
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
Rachel Sklar
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I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.
Pat Metheny
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I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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As woman was the first to be tempted, so did God's message of grace come first to a woman, and each time woman's assent determined the destiny of humanity as a whole.
Edith Stein
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Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.
Wayne Dyer
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The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.
Brian K. Vaughan
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I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.
Major Taylor
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
