Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
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I start where the last man left off.
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The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell. Satan's principal agent Dyspepsia must have charge of this branch of the vegetable kingdom.
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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
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The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.
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What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
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I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.
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Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
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Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours.
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I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
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I get my ideas from listening from within.
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Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl.
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Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!
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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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If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
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I try not to invent things that people don't need.
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Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
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My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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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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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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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise.
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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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An idea is something that won't work unless you do.