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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. Thomas A. Edison

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Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom. Nikola Tesla

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have. Thomas A. Edison

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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. R. Buckminster Fuller

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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. R. Buckminster Fuller

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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. R. Buckminster Fuller

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The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. Nikola Tesla

Today Think Insane Must Instead Clearly Scientists Quite Sane Deeply

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. Nikola Tesla

Man Matter Our Virtues Inseparable More Failings Like Force Separate

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. Nikola Tesla

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With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights. Nikola Tesla

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The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. Nikola Tesla

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The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. Nikola Tesla

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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword. R. Buckminster Fuller

Will Devil Those Degrees Brought Toys His Who Play Sword

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. Thomas A. Edison

Hell Rules Something No Rules Accomplish Trying Here

In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations. Nikola Tesla

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The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea. Nikola Tesla

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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage. R. Buckminster Fuller

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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience. R. Buckminster Fuller

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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them. R. Buckminster Fuller

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There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nikola Tesla

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Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation. Alexander Graham Bell

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