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They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
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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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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It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.
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I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
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I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
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I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
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They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying
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I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure
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My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.
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