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There is always a better way.
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 am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
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I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
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They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
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The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.
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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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I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
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I was at the foot of my class.
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The value of a good idea is in using it.
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I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
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The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.
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The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.
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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
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Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
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I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
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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 will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure
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