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Personally, I enjoy working ab...

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.

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My main purpose in life is to ...

My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions....

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My principal business is givin...

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others....

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I am quite correctly described...

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'

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Because I readily absorb ideas...

Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

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Because ideas have to be origi...

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them....

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A good idea is never lost. Eve...

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....

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Most of the exercise I get is ...

Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.

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Surprises and reverses can ser...

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

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As a cure for worrying, work i...

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.

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Barring serious accidents, if ...

Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.

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The only time I really become ...

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.

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From his neck down a man is wo...

From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.

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Whatever the mind of man creat...

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

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Even though I am nearly deaf, ...

Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.

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I love great music and art, bu...

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

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I am both pleased but astonish...

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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The United States, and other a...

The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization.... Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation

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To me, the idea and expectatio...

To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful .

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We have merely scratched the s...

We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines .

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....