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Doe Quotes by Thomas A. Edison
- I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does…
- A genius is a talented person who does his homework.
- I am wondering what would have happened to me if some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced…
- 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…
- The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people…
- Being busy does not always mean real work.
- Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must…
- Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the…
- The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind…
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- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad
- No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy… — Francis of Assisi
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi