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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.

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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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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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We can be dramatic, even theatrical we can be persuasive but the message we are telling must be true.
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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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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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The world belongs to the articulate.
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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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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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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.
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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's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.
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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
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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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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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A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.
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It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. This is true not only for those who have not previously been acquainted with the problem, but also for those who have worked over it for years.
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The bottom line is in heaven!
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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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