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First words on the first telephone - Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you.
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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Watson, ... if I can get a mechanism which will make a current of electricity vary in its intensity, as the air varies in density when a sound is passing through it, I can telegraph any sound, even the sound of speech.
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Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
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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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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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One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA
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Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.
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The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
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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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What this power is I cannot say all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
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