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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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The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.
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I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
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There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.
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I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.
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I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.
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The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.
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Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.
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Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man.
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I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure
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To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
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Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward..
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