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• I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.

  Thomas A. Edison

  God, Believe, Doubt

  The Freethinker, Volume 90, 1970.

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• A man’s best friend is a good wife.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Men, Wife

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• As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Worry, Focus

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• Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Peace, Honesty

  "Innovate Like Edison : The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success". Book by Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott, p. 67,

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• The greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen. Spiritual power is the greatest underdeveloped power and has the greatest future.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Spiritual, Discovery, Miracle

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• I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Fun

  "Edison & Ford Quote Book". Book by Edison & Ford Winter Estates, 2003.

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• There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Hard Work, Men, Thinking

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• The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Sports, Giving Up, Men

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• Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sleep

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• The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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• Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Country, Work

  "Along Broadway: The Edison Musical Magazine".

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• I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Technology, Thinking, Might

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• Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Ideas, People, Bothered

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• I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Single

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• Absorb ideas from every source.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Ideas, Source

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• There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Men, Thinking, Limits

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• They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying

  Thomas A. Edison

  Trying, Doe, Way

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• A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Teacher, Stupid, Home

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• The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics, this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes cigarettes.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Science, Boys, Cells

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• I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Believe, Existence, Supreme

  "Thomas A. Edison, Benefactor of Mankind: The Romantic Life Story of the World's Greatest Inventor". Book by Francis Trevelyan Miller, 1931.

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• There is always a better way.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Self Reliance, Way

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• I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny Inspirational, Mistake, Creativity

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• A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking. Edison informed the man that he had made 20,000 experiments but none had worked. "Aren't you discouraged by all this waste of effort?" the reporter asked. Edison: "Waste! There's nothing wasted. I have discovered 20,000 things that won't work."

  Thomas A. Edison

  Work, Men, Discovery

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• Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Education, Hard Work, Play

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• There is time for everything.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Time, Peace

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