American - Inventor | February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931
Religion is all bunk.
Thomas A. Edison
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Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
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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.
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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
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They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
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