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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison
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Thomas A. Edison
Age: 84 †
Born: 1847
Born: February 11
Died: 1931
Died: October 18
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I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
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When you become quiet, it just dawns on you
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I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
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Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
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Absorb ideas from every source.
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The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.
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A man’s best friend is a good wife.
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I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
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Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.
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I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep.
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They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying
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I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.
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Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration
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Do the thing and the power will come.
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We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
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What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.
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