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There is time for everything.
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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Thomas A. Edison
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I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
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We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.
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Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.
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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a 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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Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
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I was at the foot of my class.
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
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I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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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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I'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!
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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
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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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The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
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