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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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When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.
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When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
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The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.
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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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I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.
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Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
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The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.
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When you become quiet, it just dawns on you
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.
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Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best
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