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It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but one promise fattens the usurer (banker), and the other helps the people. If the currency

It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but one promise fattens the usurer (banker), and the other helps the people. If the currency issued by the Government were no good, then the bonds issued would be no good either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to increase the national wealth, must go into debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious values of gold.

Thomas A. Edison
Country, Men, Issues

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.

Thomas A. Edison
Mother, Health, Men

Nobody knows whether our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere, but if we can evolve an instrument so delicate to be manipulated by our personality as it survives in the next life such an instrument ought to record something.

Thomas A. Edison
Personality, Records, Next

We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

Thomas A. Edison
Running, Nature, Wind
"Uncommon Friends : Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh". Book by James Newton, 1987.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

Thomas A. Edison
Time, Maturity, Insightful

Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best

Thomas A. Edison
Great Inventions, Invention, Phonograph

Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind — the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. A book on German metaphysics would thus easily ruin a dress suit.

Thomas A. Edison
Book, Reading, Indulge In

To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect and admiration for all Engineers including the Great Engineer the Bon Dieu.

Thomas A. Edison
Science, Engineering, Brave
"The Eiffel Tower". Book by Joseph Harris, April 1975.

We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of the Bon Dieu that we cannot read each others minds, twould stop civilization and everybody would take to the woods. In fifty or hundred thousand centuries when mankind have become perfect by evolution then perhaps this sense could be developed with safety to the state.

Thomas A. Edison
Wise, Reading, Successful

It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere.

Thomas A. Edison
Years, Two, Flying

I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!

Thomas A. Edison
Phrenology, Talent, Stranger

I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.

Thomas A. Edison
Science, Want, Monkeys

Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!

Thomas A. Edison
Fashion, Radio, Obvious

Interest is the invention of Satan.

Thomas A. Edison
Satan, Invention, Interest

The Bible of nature is the best damn Bible in the world. Its laws are perfect and grand, and all the prayers in the world can't change them. There is intelligence and law in this world, and there may be supreme intelligence and law, but so far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is all a damned fake.

Thomas A. Edison
Prayer, Law, Perfect

My mother was the making of me.

Thomas A. Edison
Funny, Mother, Humorous
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.

Thomas A. Edison
Inspiring, Success, Business
"Eight dos and don'ts for launching a successful business" by Nick Leech, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2017.

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.... Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, War, Discovery

Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off... All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention pure and simple.

Thomas A. Edison
Simple, Men, Discovery
"Makers of the Modern World: The Lives of Ninety-two Writers, Artists, Scientists, Statesmen, Inventors, Philosophers, Composers, and Other Creators who Formed the Pattern of Our Century". Book by Louis Untermeyer, 1955.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 foundations and individual donors whose priorities don't align with my organization's.

Thomas A. Edison
Organization, Priorities, Foundation

The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Mom, Mother

I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.

Thomas A. Edison

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.

Thomas A. Edison
Political, Principles, Constitution
"The Philosophy of Paine" by Thomas A. Edison, June 7, 1925.

Problems in human engineering will receive during the coming years the same genius and attention which the nineteenth century gave to the more material forms of engineering. We have laid good foundations for industrial prosperity, now we want to assure the happiness and growth of the workers through vocational education, vocational guidance, and wisely managed employment departments. A great field for industrial experimentation and statemanship is opening up.

Thomas A. Edison
Science, Engineering, Years

As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure.

Thomas A. Edison
Lifestyle

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