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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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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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You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.
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First words on the first telephone - Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you.
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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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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
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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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Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions
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One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA
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Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.
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The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.
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The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
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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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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
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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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It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
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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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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
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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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