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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Remember, life is all what you focus on. Learn lessons and keep moving forward towards your goals and dreams... "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
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Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
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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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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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I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.
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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 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 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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Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.
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I'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!
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I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.
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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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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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Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.
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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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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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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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It is very beautiful over there. (last words)
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Youth doesn't take advice.
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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 value of a good idea is in using it.
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I have determined that there is no market for talking pictures.
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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.