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Nikola Tesla Quotes

There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: inventor
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Birth: July 10, 1856 - January 7, 1943

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Memory Impression Lasting Repeated

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Friend Man You Dangerous Want Him

All across this world, especially within the African diaspora, we feel like there is a constant devaluing of our culture and our livelihood.

Culture World Feel Within Like Our

I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent.

Art Focus Talent New York Fruit New

Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie, they ask about other things.

Good Think Philosophy My Own Ask

For nearly three years, President Obama devoted a great deal of effort to finding compromises with Congressional Republicans. That was futile, in my view, since those Republicans had made it clear from the day he was inaugurated in 2009 that their plan was to oppose everything he wanted and then paint him as a failed president.

Andrew Rosenthal

Great Day Effort View Plan Finding

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

Power People Help Hand Unfair Try

It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

Magic Result Results Go Say Greater

If women had better access to the financial system - even so much as a basic deposit account at a bank - it would be a major step in the direction of greater wealth and greater economic empowerment.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Women Step Direction Better Wealth

If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.

Funny People Find Serious Kind Try

I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play.

Miranda Cosgrove

Acting Play Never Pretty Different

For me, the act of telling the story and showing it to somebody is almost gravy.

Me Story Act Almost Somebody Gravy

The self-driving car is coming. And right now, our best supply of organs come from car accidents... Once we have self-driving cars, we can actually reduce the number of accidents, but the next problem then would be organ replacement.

Car Best Problem Now Right Coming

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