Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best.
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It is the people who constitute the basis of Government credit. Why then cannot the people have benefit of their own gilt-edge credit by receiving non-interest bearing currency-instead of bankers receiving the benefit of the people's credit in interest-bearing bonds. If the United States Government will adopt this policy of increasing its national wealth without contributing to the interest collector-for the whole national debt is made up on interest charges-then you will see an era of progress and prosperity in this country such as could never have come otherwise.
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This problem, once solved, will be simple.
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The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.
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I failed my way to success.
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If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
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Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
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The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization.... Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
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Friendship is the heaven of life.
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Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp.
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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A genius is a talented person who does his homework.
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There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meetand that is the first requisite of business.
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I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
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To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect and admiration for all Engineers including the Great Engineer the Bon Dieu.
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The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.
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Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.
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I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.
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It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but one promise fattens the usurer (banker), and the other helps the people. If the currency issued by the Government were no good, then the bonds issued would be no good either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to increase the national wealth, must go into debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious values of gold.
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Absorb ideas from every source.
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We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.
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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
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Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man.