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The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
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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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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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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A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
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I have always considered myself as an Agnostic.
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First words on the first telephone - Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you.
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When one door closes, another opens but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
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I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite and conversely, that a properly constructed kite should be capable of use as a flying-machine when driven by its own propellers.
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The final result of our researches has widened the class of substances sensitive to light vibrations, until we can propound the fact of such sensitiveness being a general property of all matter.
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Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.
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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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Observe, Remember, Compare.
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When one door closes, another one opens.
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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
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America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
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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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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
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