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When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
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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The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.
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In 'Common Sense' Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again.
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I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
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I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
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There's a way to do it better - find it.
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An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.
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I failed my way to success.
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I have had a lot of success with failure
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I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting...not only on account of danger, but because of their general unreliability and unsuitability for any general system of distribution.
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I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.
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Friendship is the heaven of life.
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The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.
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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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I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
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I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I realized very early that this was the only possible way for me to work out all the problems.
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I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on I then shouted Mary had a little lamb, etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly. On first words spoken on a phonograph.
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I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it
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Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.
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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
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