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The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

Edwin Land

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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
Entrepreneur
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Photographer
Physicist
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
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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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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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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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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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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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[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
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The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.
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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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