Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
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My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.
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The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.
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I love so many styles of music.
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
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I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
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One shouldn't know the future.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans.
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A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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My family is very conservative.
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To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
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Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
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Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.
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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
