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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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None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on I then shouted Mary had a little lamb, etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly. On first words spoken on a phonograph.
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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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When you become quiet, it just dawns on you
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I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.
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I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.
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I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.
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To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.
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The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.
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Consider data without prejudice.
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If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.
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I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
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The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
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I have had a lot of success with failure
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
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Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.
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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
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