Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I didn't know if I was going to be hired full time or not. At the beginning, I was sort of hired as a part time, on and off guy. When I first got hired - it was August 2006 - and I was working on and off, and they'd call me whenever.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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I'd love to make a thriller.
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.
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What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?
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There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
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We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all. Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with ours.
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The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
