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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.

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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
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Bridgeport
Connecticut
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Fifty years after we undertook to make the first synthetic polarizers we find them the essential layer in digital liquid-crystal. And thirty four years after we undertook to make the first instant camera and film, our kind of photography has become ubiquitous.
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The bottom line is in heaven!
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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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The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
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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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I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.
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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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I believe that each young person is different from any other who has ever lived, as different as his fingerprints: that he could bring to the world a wonderful and special way of solving unsolved problems, that in his special way, he can be great.
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Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.
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Look, if the picture you get instantly is as beautiful as the picture you get by waiting seven days, then it is absolute madness to say that there is virtue in waiting.
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I believe each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve his secret dream of greatness and make it come true.
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The world is like a fertile field that's waiting to be harvested. The seeds have been planted, and what I do is go out and help plant more seeds and harvest them.
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It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!
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The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be.
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You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.
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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.
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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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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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