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The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty- a fad. — President of the Michigan Savings Bank

The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage. — Charlie Chaplin, 1916

A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth's atmosphere. — New York Times, 1936

There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will. — Albert Einstein, 1932

The world potential market for copying machines is 5000 at most. — IBM, to the eventual founders of Xerox, saying the photocopier had no market large enough to justify production, 1959

How, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you, excuse me, I have not the time to listen to such nonsense. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia. — Dr Dionysys Larder (1793-1859)

The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys. — Sir William Preece, Chief Engineer, British Post Office, 1878

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. — Lord Kelvin, British mathematician and physicist

From Facebook

Why yes! Yes I have!

From a Perspectives presentation

God had an only Son, and He made Him a missionary. — David Livingstone

From a Facebook post

“Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't.” — Richard Bach

From a web site

A full stomach and an empty soul is the most severe form of destitution. — William Booth

From Pioneer USA on Twitter

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him. — C.T. Studd

From Mikey's Funnies

It’s amazing what you can accomplish when you don’t care who gets the credit. — Harry S. Truman