Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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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….
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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'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!
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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 am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.
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Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.
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Vision without execution is delusion.
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I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying
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I try not to invent things that people don't need.
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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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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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I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.
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I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
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Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.
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Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%.
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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
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Do the thing and the power will come.
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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
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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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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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You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.
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We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of the Bon Dieu that we cannot read each others minds, twould stop civilization and everybody would take to the woods. In fifty or hundred thousand centuries when mankind have become perfect by evolution then perhaps this sense could be developed with safety to the state.
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There is time for everything.