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Alexander Graham Bell
Age: 75 †
Born: 1847
Born: March 3
Died: 1922
Died: August 2
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Edinburgh
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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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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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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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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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There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.
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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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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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A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
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One day every major city in America will have a telephone.
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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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Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.
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With every door that closes a new one opens.
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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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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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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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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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Leave the beaten track behind 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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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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