Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.
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They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
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Success is the result of hard work.
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We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
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What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
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An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.
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To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.
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My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
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Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours.
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I get my ideas from listening from within.
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Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
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Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!
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I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
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There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
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Remember, life is all what you focus on. Learn lessons and keep moving forward towards your goals and dreams... "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
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The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.
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I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.
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You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.
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Work while others are wishing.
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 foundations and individual donors whose priorities don't align with my organization's.
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I never quit until I get what I want.
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The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.