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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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
E.H. Land
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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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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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