"Fooling around with alternating currents is just a……" — Thomas A. Edison
"Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe."
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279 Quotes by Thomas A. Edison
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My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I…
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The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed.…
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
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Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of…
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We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what…
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Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.
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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
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IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE
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I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.
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I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
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I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.
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The student should bear in mind that the very essence of consciousness is constantly to identify itself with the Not-Self,…
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Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that…
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History is an alternating series of frying pans and fires.
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I do abs every day: regular, weighted crunches and sit-ups every other day, then my obliques and my sides on…
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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating…
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The prey of fear, he, always curtailed, extinguished, thwarted by the dusk, work partly done, says to the alternating blaze,…
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A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life—seems to be involved…
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Windmills installed around the world converting their direct current into alternating current and feeding the electric energy into the world…
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Once I asked Teichman what he thought of Bird's chess: "Same as his health," he replied, "always alternating between being…
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
— Henry James
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Most American homes have alternating current, which means that the electricty goes in one direction for a while, then goes…
— Dave Barry
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