Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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I try not to invent things that people don't need.
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Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.
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Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.
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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.
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The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.
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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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It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.
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I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.
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Nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.
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I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying
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Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.
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Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.
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Youth doesn't take advice.
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I'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!
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There is time for everything.
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My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
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The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
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The greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen. Spiritual power is the greatest underdeveloped power and has the greatest future.
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I have determined that there is no market for talking pictures.
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Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.
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The value of a good idea is in using it.
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There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.
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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 .