We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.

Thomas A. Edison

Stichwörter: humor electricity price cheap masses

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I have always regarded Paine as one of the greatest of all Americans. Never have we had a sounder intelligence in this republic ... It was my good fortune to encounter Thomas Paine's works in my boyhood ... it was, indeed, a revelation to me to read that great thinker's views on political and theological subjects. Paine educated me, then, about many matters of which I had never before thought. I remember, very vividly, the flash of enlightenment that shone from Paine's writings, and I recall thinking, at that time, 'What a pity these works are not today the schoolbooks for all children!' My interest in Paine was not satisfied by my first reading of his works. I went back to them time and again, just as I have done since my boyhood days.

Thomas A. Edison

Stichwörter: politics education influence thomas-paine founding-father influential

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

Stichwörter: inspiration dedication

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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 job best until I find the ones that don’t.

Thomas A. Edison

Stichwörter: failure experimentation

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