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Alexander Graham Bell
Age: 75 †
Born: 1847
Born: March 3
Died: 1922
Died: August 2
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One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA
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Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions
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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
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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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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 achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
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When one door closes, another one opens.
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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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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
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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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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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What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists.
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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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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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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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Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.
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The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.
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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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America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
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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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