Category: inventor
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I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal
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There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
Blaise Pascal
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The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
Blaise Pascal
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The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal
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Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
Blaise Pascal
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Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents.
Nikola Tesla
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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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People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal
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The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
Thomas A. Edison
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Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
Blaise Pascal