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(1847 - 1931) US Verified "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." The Philosophy of Paine (June 7, 1925) "In 'Common Sense' Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again." The Philosophy of Paine (June 7, 1925) "Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration." Source: Harper's Monthly, 1932 Attributed "Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something." "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." "Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work." "Rules! Hell! There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish sump'n." Alternate: "There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish something!" "There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking." "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." "We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything." "My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it. "All Bibles are man-made." "So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake. Religion is all bunk." External Link Thomas Edison on Paine See: list of people by name
Verified "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." The Philosophy of Paine (June 7, 1925) "In 'Common Sense' Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again." The Philosophy of Paine (June 7, 1925) "Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration." Source: Harper's Monthly, 1932 Attributed "Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something." "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." "Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work." "Rules! Hell! There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish sump'n." Alternate: "There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish something!" "There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking." "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." "We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything." "My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it. "All Bibles are man-made." "So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake. Religion is all bunk." External Link Thomas Edison on Paine See: list of people by name