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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I never quit until I get what I want.
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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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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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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
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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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I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying
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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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Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.
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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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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
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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.
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Youth doesn't take advice.
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Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%.
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Do the thing and the power will come.
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I'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!
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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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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 value of a good idea is in using it.
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The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
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Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
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Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.