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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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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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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
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We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.
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The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.
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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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Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions
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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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Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.
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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
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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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With every door that closes a new one opens.
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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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Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.
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One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA
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One day every major city in America will have a telephone.
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The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.
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The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization.
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The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
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