Thomas A. Edison Quotes
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise.
Quotes to Explore
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Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
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Once in a while, I still witness occasionally sexist behavior and comments from men (which experience has taught me you should always deflect with humour rather than anger). Old habits die hard, after all, and it's unrealistic to expect dinosaurs to fall silent overnight.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.
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I'm a pretty plain-spoken guy.
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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
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Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.
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The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.
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With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.
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I was raised by a strong single mother.
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Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
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Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise.
