Franklin Edgerton quotes

“The first mark of intelligence, to be sure, is not to start things; the second mark of intelligence is to pursue to the end what you have started.”
-- Franklin Edgerton

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“Be with Allah, You will find Allah with you.”

“The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.”

“Be content with what you have Be satisfied with your dwelling place to accommodate your enterprise, Restrain your tongue, And shed tears of regret regarding past sins you committed knowingly, and those you do not recognize.”

“It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.”

“The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.”

“Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.”

“It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.”

Source : "Duh! The Stupid History of the Human Race". Book by Bob Fenster, September 2000.

“Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.”

“That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 25, 2013

“The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.”

Source : "The Dirt on Aaron Paul". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. July 12, 2012.