Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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If Trump's talking to Putin can help end the bloodshed in Ukraine or Syria, it would appear to be at least as ethical an act as pulpiteering about our moral superiority on the Sunday talk shows.
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Water is good, but if you have too much, you drown. So is water bad, or is it good? It's both.
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I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'
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And I have known the arms already, known them all - Arms that are braceleted and white and bare But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!It is perfume from a dress That makes me so digress?Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl. And should I then presume?
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Many people do not realise that it takes considerably more art and skill to play the violin lightly than it does to play it loudly. Indeed, the best possible training for young violinists is learning to play pianissimo and without pressure.
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I can provide one living example of someone who made it and who came from what we now call a disadvantaged background: me.
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The careful pilot of my proper woe.
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Soon it won't be the Internet any more, it'll just be like air, like somehow they'll integrate the Internet into the air. And God's name will have ended up being 'Google,' because that's the way it worked out. It could have worked out that God's name ended up being 'Yahoo,' of course, but they lost out.
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I don't know if it's because of 'Scandal,' but I am a huge wine and popcorn fan.
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That's the trouble with playing a cutting-edge narcotics detective - you've got to wear what's topical at the moment. My kids tease me about outfits I was wearing last week, let alone in the eighties.
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Je ne veux point de rois qui sachent obéir.
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Critics can say horrible things. It only hurts when I agree with them.
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I feel that there is not an endlessly expandable universe of fiction readers.
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Speaking of a future at most only decades away, an experimenter in intelligence control asserted, “I foresee a time when we shall have the means and therefore, inevitably, the temptation to manipulate the behavior and intellectual functioning of all the people through environmental and biochemical manipulation of the brain.
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No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child.
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Growing up, I always wanted a bedroom of my own.
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Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust.
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Nobody wants to retire from football.
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I'm an inventor.
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I've been really lucky as an inventor. I'm the happiest guy you're ever going to meet. And my dad died before he realized anybody in the family would maybe, hopefully, make something out of themselves.
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I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'
