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• When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.

  Nikola Tesla

  Passion, League, Goal

  Nikola Tesla (2014). “My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography”, p.26, Lulu.com

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• Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.

  Nikola Tesla

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, With Special References to the Harnessing of”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• One day man will connect his
  apparatus to the very wheel work of
  the universe. The very forces that
  motivate the planets in their orbits
  and cause them to rotate will rotate
  his own machinery.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, One Day, Orbit

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• That is the trouble with many inventors; they lack patience. They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly and sharply in their mind, so that they can actually "feel it work." They want to try their first idea right off; and the result is they use up lots of money and lots of good material, only to find eventually that they are working in the wrong direction. We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.

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  Mistake, Ideas, Mind

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• There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment

  Nikola Tesla

  Energy, Matter, Environment

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• I am unwilling to accord to some small−minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more than microbes of a nasty disease. My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it. It was too far ahead of time, but the same laws will prevail in the end and make it a triumphal success.

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  Jealous, Men, Law

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• All peoples everywhere should have free energy sources.

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  Should Have, Energy, Source

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• If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly wasteful, and will have to be stopped in the interest of coming generations. The heat of the sun's rays represents an immense amount of energy vastly in excess of waterpower...The sun's energy controlled to create lakes and rivers for motive purposes and transformation of arid deserts into fertile land.

  Nikola Tesla

  Rivers, Lakes, Heat Of The Sun

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• Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without.

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  Men, Mind, Machines

  Nikola Tesla (2014). “My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography”, p.80, Lulu.com

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• This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.

  Nikola Tesla

  Self, Practice, Snow

  Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: [Illustrated & Biography Added]”, p.31, eKitap Projesi

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• Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.

  Nikola Tesla

  Patents, Marconi, Fellows

  "Who Invented Radio?". www.pbs.org.

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• The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

  Nikola Tesla

  Motivational, Success, Future

  Nikola Tesla, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Nikola Tesla Quotes... Vol. 3: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Nikola Tesla”

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• A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.

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  Criminals, Normal, Century

  "Machine to End War by Nikola Tesla as told to George Sylvester Viereck". "Liberty", www.pbs.org. February 1937.

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• I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them for years. But there was one, a beautiful bird, pure white with light grey tips on its wings; that one was different. It was a female. I had only to wish and call her and she would come flying to me. I loved that pigeon as a man loves a women, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life.

  Nikola Tesla

  Beautiful, Men, Light

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• If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... [J]ust a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.

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  Science, Ust, Littles

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• Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves. The premature death of millions is primarily traceable to this cause. Even among those who exercise care, it is a common mistake to avoid imaginary, and ignore the real dangers. And what is true of an individual also applies, more or less, to a people as a whole.

  Nikola Tesla

  Real, Mistake, Exercise

  Nikola Tesla (2014). “My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography”, p.10, Lulu.com

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• If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much.

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  Sweat, Smarter, Ifs

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• My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.

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  Sacrifice, Law, Rewards

  Nikola Tesla (2007). “My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla”, p.69, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

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  Men, Progressive, Invention

  Nikola Tesla (2011). “My Inventions and Other Writings”, p.18, Penguin

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• The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.

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  Accurate, Shows, Foresight

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “Famous Scientific Illusions”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Inventors don't have time for married life.

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  Married, Married Life, Inventor

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• Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Discovery, Littles

  "Tesla, Master of Lightning" by Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth, and Jim Glenn, (p. 82), 1999.

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• A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of the globe, so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the processes in Nature.

  Nikola Tesla

  Stars, Fall, Eye

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “On Light and Other High Frequency”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Distance, Spheres

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.593, Simon and Schuster

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• The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Mind, Mastery

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