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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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Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.
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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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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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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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It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
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America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
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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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