Thomas A. Edison Quotes - Page 13

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• The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

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  Motivational, Hard Work, Persistence

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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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  Book, Would Be, Speech

  "The Philosophy of Paine" by Thomas A. Edison, June 7, 1925.

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• So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.

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  Atheist, If There Is A God, Fake

  "What on Earth is an Atheist!". Book by Madalyn Murray O'Hair, 1972.

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• One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

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  Love, Inspirational, Success

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• Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.

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  Baseball, Football, Games

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• I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.

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  Educational, Believe, Years

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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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  Country, Money, Differences

  "Student Loans: The Government Is Now Officially in the Banking Business" by Ellen Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2010.

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• That is to say, under the old way any time we wish to add to the national wealth we are compelled to add to the national debt. Now, that is what Henry Ford wants to prevent. He thinks it is stupid, and so do I, that for the loan of $30,000,000 of their own money the people of the United States should be compelled to pay $66,000,000 - that is what it amounts to, with interest.

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  Stupid, Thinking, People

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• I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could be got commercial; but here was something there was no doubt of.

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  Success, Science, Long

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• We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. ... 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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  Running, Nature, Wind

  "Uncommon Friends : Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh". Book by James Newton, 1987.

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• Nobody knows whether our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere, but if we can evolve an instrument so delicate to be manipulated by our personality as it survives in the next life such an instrument ought to record something.

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  Personality, Records, Next

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• Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

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  Time, Maturity, Insightful

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• Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best

  Thomas A. Edison

  Great Inventions, Invention, Phonograph

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• Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind — the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. A book on German metaphysics would thus easily ruin a dress suit.

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  Book, Reading, Indulge In

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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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  Science, Engineering, Brave

  "The Eiffel Tower". Book by Joseph Harris, April 1975.

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• Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.

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  Book, School, Years

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• I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

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  Motivational, Song, Art

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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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  Wise, Reading, Successful

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• We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.

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  Light, Vivid Imagination, Firsts

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• Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man.

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  Men, Century, Attributes

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• I have a peculiar theory about radium, and I believe it is the correct one. I believe that there is some mysterious ray pervading the universe that is fluorescing to it. In other words, that all its energy is not self-constructed but that there is a mysterious something in the atmosphere that scientists have not found that is drawing out those infinitesimal atoms and distributing them forcefully and indestructibly.

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  Believe, Science, Self

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• I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.

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  Motivational, Mean, Use

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• It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere.

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  Years, Two, Flying

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• I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!

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  Phrenology, Talent, Stranger

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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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  Country, Government, People

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