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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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None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
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I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
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Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
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I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.
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I think work is the world's greatest fun.
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I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.
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The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast
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My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.
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I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
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As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
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My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
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All bibles are man-made.
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To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
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I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.
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A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job
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Do the thing and the power will come.
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