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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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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
E.H. Land
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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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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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Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention.
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A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain away rather than seek out.
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The world belongs to the articulate.
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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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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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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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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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As I review the nature of the creative drive in the inventive scientists that have been around me, as well as in myself, I find the first event is an urge to make a significant intellectual contribution that can be tangible embodied in a product or process.
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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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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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We can be dramatic, even theatrical we can be persuasive but the message we are telling must be true.
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