Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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There is no substitute for hard work.
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Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.
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Do the thing and the power will come.
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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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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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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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Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.
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Nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.
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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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I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying
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I'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!
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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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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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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
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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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If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People.
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There is time for everything.
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The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
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Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.
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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.