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The world belongs to the articulate.
Edwin Land
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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
Entrepreneur
Inventor
Photographer
Physicist
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
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World
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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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I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company.
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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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Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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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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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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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.
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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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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
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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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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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A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.
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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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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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