Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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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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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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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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Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.
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When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
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I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep.
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I have determined that there is no market for talking pictures.
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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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It is very beautiful over there. (last words)
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My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.
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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
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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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Interest is the invention of Satan.