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Thomas A. Edison
Age: 84 †
Born: 1847
Born: February 11
Died: 1931
Died: October 18
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I think work is the world's greatest fun.
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Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.
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Do the thing and the power will come.
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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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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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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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I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
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We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
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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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So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.
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Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.
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Friendship is the heaven of life.
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All bibles are man-made.
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I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
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The radio craze will die out in time.
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Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination
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I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
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