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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 better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.
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The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
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Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
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