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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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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
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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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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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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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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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Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.
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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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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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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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There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.
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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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The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
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One day every major city in America will have a telephone.
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Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions
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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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I have always considered myself as an Agnostic.
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The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.
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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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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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