Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
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I never thought of being disadvantaged.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs.
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I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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There was electricity in our village only for 2-3 hours a day, so all my life, I studied under a lamp.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.
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Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up.
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He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.
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The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow.
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Darwin repeatedly used the hypothesis of common ancestry as a platform on which to build his various ideas about testing hypotheses concerning natural selection. He also argued that adaptive similarities provide little or no evidence for common ancestry. Although this second claim needs to be fine-tuned, Darwin was right that ample evidence for common ancestry can exist even if none of the characteristics we observe were caused to evolve by natural selection.
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Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours.
