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It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
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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Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
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With every door that closes a new one opens.
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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 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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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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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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First words on the first telephone - Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you.
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Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
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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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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 one opens.
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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
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God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut
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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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