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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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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I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.
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So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.
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