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• What I'm trying to do is get this message out about self-empowerment, entrepreneurial spirit and true Americanism - the way… — Glenn Beck
• We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight. — Milton Berle
• When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp… — George Carlin
• The recurrence of a phenomenon like Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing… — Nikola Tesla
• Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything… — Nikola Tesla
• His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything… — Nikola Tesla
• Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of… — Henry Ford
• If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it… — Nikola Tesla
• If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles. — Mark McCormack
• The Wright brothers didn't contemplate the staying on the ground of things. Alexander Graham Bell didn't contemplate the noncommunication of… — Wayne Dyer
• If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'. — Newt Gingrich
• Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the… — Zora Neale Hurston

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