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I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.

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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents.
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In this country, there is an opportunity for the development of man's intellectual, cultural, and spiritual potentialities that has never existed before in the history of our species. I mean not simply an opportunity for greatness for a few, but an opportunity for greatness for the many.
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A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.
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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
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We can be dramatic, even theatrical we can be persuasive but the message we are telling must be true.
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