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Last Names Starting With E & F

All progress, all success, springs from thinking.
      — Thomas Edison, American inventor and businessman
 

Hell, there are no rules here — we're trying to accomplish something.
      — Thomas A. Edison
 

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

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
      — Thomas A. Edison
 

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
      — Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist
 

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute, and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
      — Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist
 

I've found crashing jets into skyscrapers is a good way to catch supervillains. But since this is real life and not a comic book, maybe it's not such a hot idea after all.
      — David James Elliott, TV actor
 

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
      — Ralph Waldo Emerson, American author, poet, and philosopher
 

I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.
      — Jules Feiffer, cartoonist
 

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No sense being a damn fool about it.
      — W.C. Fields, American comedian and actor
 

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
      — Henry Ford
 

I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into a resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling.
      — Robert Fulghum, author
 

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