The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

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  To make war a mere contest of machines without men and without loss of life.

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  When all darkness shall be dissipated by the light of science, when all nations shall be merged into one, and patriotism shall be identical with religion, when there shall be one language, one country, one end, then the dream will have become reality.

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  I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.

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  As I uttered these inspiring words the idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.

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  Our first endeavors are purely instinctive, promptings of an imagination vivid and undisciplined.

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  The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to human needs.

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