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Failure is really a matter of ...

Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.

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The successful person makes a ...

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

Show me a completely contented...

Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.

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The strength of the Constituti...

The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

I never perfected an invention...

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

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Problems in human engineering ...

Problems in human engineering will receive during the coming years the same genius and attention which the nineteenth century gave to the more material forms of engineering.
We have laid good foundations for industrial prosperity, now we want to assure the happiness and growth of the workers through vocational education, vocational guidance, and wisely managed employment departments. A great field for industrial experimentation and statemanship is opening up.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

I am afraid of radium and polo...

I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.

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It is very different to make a...

It is very different to make a practical system and to introduce it. A few experiments in the laboratory would prove the practicability of system long before it could be brought into general use. You can take a pipe and put a little coal in it, close it up, heat it and light the gas that comes out of the stem, but that is not introducing gas lighting. I'll bet that if it were discovered to-morrow in New York that gas could be made out of coal it would be at least five years before the system would be in general use.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

X-rays ... I am afraid of them...

X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.

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I cannot believe in the immort...

I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.

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I do not believe any type of r...

I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.

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In creating technology for our...

In creating technology for ourselves we created it for the world.

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Everything comes to those who ...

Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.

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I think that Ingersoll had all...

I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.

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I never once made a discovery ...

I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.

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Nature is what we know. We do ...

Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me - the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love - He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.

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We are like tenant farmers cho...

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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Nature made us... nature did i...

Nature made us... nature did it all... not the gods of the religions.

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There seems to be no limit to ...

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

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The only thing I use my body f...

The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

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