Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Thomas Edison Quotes Click here for Thomas Edison books The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World "We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything." "There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish something!" "I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles." "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." "Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration." "All Bibles are man-made." "When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right." "I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom." "There is time for everything." "A good idea is never lost." "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." "Our schools are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work." "The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization." "Be courageous! Whatever setbacks
America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more
prosperous nation."
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