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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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One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA
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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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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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It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
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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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First words on the first telephone - Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you.
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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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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
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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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Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.
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The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.
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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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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
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One day every major city in America will have a telephone.
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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
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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 only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
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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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Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.
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