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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.

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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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A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
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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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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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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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Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.
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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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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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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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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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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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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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[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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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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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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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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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
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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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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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