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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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 was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could be got commercial but here was something there was no doubt of.
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I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
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The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization.... Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
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