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The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
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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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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Man is the result of slow growth that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.
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It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
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First words on the first telephone - Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you.
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There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.
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Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.
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Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.
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Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions
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Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish … the “timbre” of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.
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