Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
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Nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.
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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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I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.
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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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I'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!
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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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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
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I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.
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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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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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Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.
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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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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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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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Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.
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Youth doesn't take advice.
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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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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
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I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying
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I have determined that there is no market for talking pictures.
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The value of a good idea is in using it.
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A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
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There is time for everything.