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With every door that closes a new one opens.
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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Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.
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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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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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First words on the first telephone - Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you.
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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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The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
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The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.
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One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA
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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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The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
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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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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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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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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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One day every major city in America will have a telephone.
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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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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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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
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Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.
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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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