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“I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.”

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Thomas A. Edison

Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and entrepreneur, known as the 'Wizard of Menlo Park' and the 'Inventor of the Age.' He held over 1,000 patents, including the light bulb, phonograph, motion picture camera, and electrical power system. Edison made significant contributions to the fields of electricity, chemistry, and mechanical engineering, profoundly impacting modern industrial and technological development. more

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“In 'Common Sense' Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again.”

Way Said Matter Differences Powerful Common Revolution Calm Common Sense Inevitable Documents Paine

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“Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp.”

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“Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of disease. Medicine is played out. Every new discovery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless.”

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“None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.”

Needs Inspiration Mets Accidents Nine Trials Invention Worthwhile Cents Ninety Ninety Nine Perspiration

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“We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.”

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“It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.”

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“The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.”

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“O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?”

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“Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts.”

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Book:On The Aesthetic Education Of Man

Source: On The Aesthetic Education Of Man