Thomas A. Edison Quotes
I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.
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We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
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The oceans produce up to 70 percent of our oxygen, they shape our climate, and they support an American oceans economy larger than our nation's entire agriculture sector.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.
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I've been a jealous person myself. I've been distrustful, convinced that somebody's having an affair with somebody else. If you believe it in your head, everything looks like a lie. When you're looking for it, you always see it - even the change of expression in their face.
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The First Amendment, I think, is the jewel of our Constitution.
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I have seen motions of the air so furious that they have carried, mixed up in their course, the largest trees of the forest and whole roofs of great palaces, and I have seen the same fury bore a hole with a whirling movement digging out a gravel pit, and carrying gravel, sand and water more than half a mile through the air.
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Yet the greater part of it, I shall show, is nonsense, tricked out with a variety of metaphysical conceits, and its author can be excused of dishonesty only on the grounds that before deceiving others he has taken great pains to deceive himself.
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I'd like to see the Second Coming in every one of us. That we all be Jesus. That we all embody that consciousness.
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I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.
