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Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions
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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When one door closes, another 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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The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
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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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One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA
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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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It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
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I have always considered myself as an Agnostic.
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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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What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists.
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There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.
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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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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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Observe, Remember, Compare.
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Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.
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First words on the first telephone - Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you.
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The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
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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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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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