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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I want to save my people. That is the purpose of my life.
Narayanan Krishnan
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The experience of past wars shows that the first use of a new technical or tactical method of attack is usually highly effective even if a simple antidote can soon be developed. But in a thermonuclear war the first blow may be the decisive one and render null and void years of work and billions spent on creation of an anti-missile system.
Andrei Sakharov
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Love gives us copious potions of delight, Of pain and ecstasy, and peace and care; Love leads us upward, to the mountain height, And, like an angel, stands beside us there; Then thrusts us, demon-like, in some abyss: Where, in the darkness of despair, we grope, Till, suddenly, Love greets us with a kiss And guides us back to flowery fields of hope.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
