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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
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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When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
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I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting...not only on account of danger, but because of their general unreliability and unsuitability for any general system of distribution.
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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 find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it
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The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.
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