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Letter "E" » Edison
«Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?»
«Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions»
«After tens of millions of [abortion] 'procedures,' has America lost anything? Another Edison, perhaps? A Gershwin? A Babe Ruth? A Duke Ellington? ? As it is, we will never know what abortion has cost us all.»
Author: Joseph Sobran
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«Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.»
Author: Larry Ellison
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Bill Gates, Bill of Rights, Edison, Gates, referring, Rockefeller, smartest
«Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.»
Author: Napoleon Hill
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Perseverance
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«If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search.I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.»
«The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.»
Author: Sidney Madwed
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«What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.»
«When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.»
Author: George Carlin
(Actor, Author, Comedian)
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An electric, candle, Edison, electric, electric light, gas, gas lamp, lamp, Late Night, that much, Thomas, Thomas Edison, urgent, worked
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