“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 Edison, 1895
Quotations
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“What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?” — The Quarterly Review, March 1825
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“Remember, we’re all in this alone.” — Lily Tomlin
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“Ours has been the first [expedition], and doubtless to be the last, to visit this profitless locality.” — Lt. Joseph Ives, after visiting the Grand Canyon, 1861
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“I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room and, goddammit, died in a hotel room.”
— Eugene O’Neill’s last words
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“If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans.” — Otto von Bismarck, 1898
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“Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.” — Benjamin Franklin
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“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” — Leonardo da Vinci
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“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know can’t hurt me.” — Abraham Lincoln
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“Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You’re crazy.” — Associates of Edwin L. Drake, refusing his suggestion, 1859