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It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally. Nikola Tesla

The Secretary of Hygiene or Physical Culture will be far more important in the cabinet of the President of the United States who holds office in the year 2035 than the Secretary of War. Nikola Tesla

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The value of an idea lies in the using of it. Thomas A. Edison

Value Lies Idea Using

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. Orville Wright

Hope Assumption Would Would-Be Advance True Accepted Little Worked Really

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision. Thomas A. Edison

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Even if the most ethical people were elected to high position and we ran out of resources, there would still be lying, cheating, stealing, and corruption. It is not ethical people that are needed but rather a way of intelligently managing the Earth's resources for everyone's well-being. Jacque Fresco

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I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun. Thomas A. Edison

Life Work Day My Life Never Did Fun

There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate. Nikola Tesla

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The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun. Nikola Tesla

Energy Harness Sun Drawing Economical Most Known Method

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery. R. Buckminster Fuller

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! Thomas A. Edison

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it. Alexander Graham Bell

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid. Charles Kettering

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The shape and solutions of the future rely totally on the collective effort of people working together. We are all an integral part of the web of life. Jacque Fresco

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If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people. Jacque Fresco

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We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well. Nikola Tesla

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I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat. Nikola Tesla

Myself Abstain Also Practically Stimulants Meat

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. R. Buckminster Fuller

Mechanic Synthesis Evolutionary Objective Emerging Inventor Economist Artist Strategist Designer

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking. R. Buckminster Fuller

Faith Better Thinking Else Someone Does Than Much Belief

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless. Thomas A. Edison

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