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The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
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 down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right.
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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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I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
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I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.
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Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.
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To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
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Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.
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Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.
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A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 foundations and individual donors whose priorities don't align with my organization's.
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