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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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Ohio
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I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.
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Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
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Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
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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 body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
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Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.
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I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.
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My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
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I'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!
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A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
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Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best
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I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'
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Work while others are wishing.
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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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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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Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.
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Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
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