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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
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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Thomas A. Edison
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I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
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Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one of the torments of Hades I could imagine a doomed mortal made to untangle wet fish lines forever. Everybody lost patience at the stupidity of the fish in not coming forward promptly to be murdered.
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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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Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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