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Thomas A. Edison

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I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of fu...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing ov...
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the hu...
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Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides a...
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I do not believe that any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the ...
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All Bibles are man-made
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Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth
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Vision without execution is hallucination.
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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialit...
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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world...
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Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-i...
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Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
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They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
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I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
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A little twist to the usual, "Everything comes to he who waits". Everything comes to him who hustles...
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Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then h...
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I'm proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill
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We now know a thousand ways not to build a light bulb
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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment an...
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We do not know one millionth of one percent about anything.
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