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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
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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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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A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.
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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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Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!
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It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.
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The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
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Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.
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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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