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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. Thomas A. Edison
Me Failure You Man Progress Will First Satisfied Thoroughly Restlessness Discontent Show Necessity
I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says. Alexander Graham Bell
You Man Justice People Impress Believe Minds Say Says Would People Say Rather Fact He Himself Than Want Should Your
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm. Charles Kettering
Ocean Would Crossed Could No-One He Gotten Off Ship Storm
What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are. George Eastman
Our Determines Hours Leisure Working
The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short. Homaro Cantu
Life Beautiful Culture Country Beauty Tree Back Hundreds Hundreds Of Years Significance Almost Reminder Also Cherry Cherry Blossom Years Tragically Blossom Goes Short Represents Japanese Japanese Culture Fragility
The future is fluid. Each act, each decision, and each development creates new possibilities and eliminates others. The future is ours to direct. Jacque Fresco
Future Decision Fluid Others Ours Possibilities Direct Development New New Possibilities Creates Act Each
Our leaders pay lip service to the freedoms that democracy provides while actually supporting an economic structure that imprisons its citizens under more and more debt. Jacque Fresco
Service Democracy Pay Our Citizens Structure More More And More Economic Leaders Supporting Freedoms Provides Debt Lip Lip Service While Actually
In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds. Jacque Fresco
Positive Future Change First Become Design Changing Positive Change Our Minds Must Order Expert
The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified. Nikola Tesla
Truth Nature History Science Better Understanding Every Our Better Understanding New Perishable Revealed Get New Truth The History Of Modified Theories Views Shows
I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers. Nikola Tesla
Matter Other System Shall Point Crucial Soon Remote Globe How Tests Any Convert
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. R. Buckminster Fuller
Politics Gun Pick Always End Up Move
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. R. Buckminster Fuller
Nature Depend Experiment Only Make Does Very Trying Succeed Us Hard
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. R. Buckminster Fuller
Beautiful Problem Finished Beauty Think Solution About Never Wrong Know Am Working
Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion. Ray Kurzweil
Future Technology Reality Our Intuition About Take Steps Makes Linear Get Difference Information Information Technology Exponential Billion Exponentially Profound
Great ideas originate in the muscles. Thomas A. Edison
Great Great Ideas Ideas Originate Muscles
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. Thomas A. Edison
Me Failure You Man Will Satisfied Thoroughly Show
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. Alexander Graham Bell
Success Result Men Those Steady Most End Accretion In The End Success Is Successful Whose
America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men. Alexander Graham Bell
Men Country Inventors Greatest America Newspaper
People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones. Charles Kettering
People Old Long New Things Exactly About Open-Minded New Like Very Old Ones Things
The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate. Douglas Engelbart
Embarrassment Rate Directly Proportional He Mature Person Which Tolerate
The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education. George Eastman
Education World Progress Entirely Almost Depends
I would like to see an end to war, poverty, and unnecessary human suffering. But I can't see it in a monetary-based system where the richest nations control most of the world's resources. Jacque Fresco
War Suffering World Poverty Control Resources System Unnecessary Would See Like Most End Human Nations Where Richest Human Suffering
Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality. Jacque Fresco
Reality World Projection Illusion Whatever Our More Real Expectations Happened Fictitious Happens Should Suffer Thinks
In marketing I've seen only one strategy that can't miss - and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last. John Romero
Best World Rest Seen First Strategy Market Marketing Only Miss Prospects Customers Your Second Last
If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies. Nikola Tesla
Poverty Power Every Our Machinery Give More More Power Individual Misery Primary Primary Source Safe Reduce Provide Source Existence Intelligent Being Want Energies Deserving Needed
The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. Nikola Tesla
Marriage Trend Difficult Must Parent More No-One Make Opinion Permitted Produce Should Certainly Who Among Desirable Progeny
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