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The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.
Edwin Land
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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
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Edwin Herbert Land
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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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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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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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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 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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