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Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.
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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Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.
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The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
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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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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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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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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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What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists.
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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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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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With every door that closes a new one opens.
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