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America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
Alexander Graham Bell
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Alexander Graham Bell
Age: 75 †
Born: 1847
Born: March 3
Died: 1922
Died: August 2
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We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.
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I have heard articulate speech produced by sunlight I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing! … I have been able to hear a shadow, and I have even perceived by ear the passage of a cloud across the sun's disk.
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Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
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God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut
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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
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What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists.
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I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all!
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The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
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Wherever you may find the inventor, you may give him wealth or you may take from him all that he has and he will go on inventing. He can no more help inventing that he can help thinking or breathing.
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