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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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Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.
Thomas A. Edison
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The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.
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I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.
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Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of the power to observe. The trouble, I should judge, to lie with the schools.
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Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.
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Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.
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There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.
Thomas A. Edison
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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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Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
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The Bible of nature is the best damn Bible in the world. Its laws are perfect and grand, and all the prayers in the world can't change them. There is intelligence and law in this world, and there may be supreme intelligence and law, but so far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is all a damned fake.
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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
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Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%.
Thomas A. Edison
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The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train the mind to think.
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My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill….
Thomas A. Edison -
I never quit until I get what I want.
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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
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There is time for everything.
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I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep.
Thomas A. Edison
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To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful .
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Youth doesn't take advice.
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People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward.
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When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
Thomas A. Edison