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This problem, once solved, will be simple.
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 never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.
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The greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen. Spiritual power is the greatest underdeveloped power and has the greatest future.
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Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!
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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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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
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I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not 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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It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!
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I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor
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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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Do the thing and the power will come.
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.
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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
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The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.
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To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
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