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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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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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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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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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I'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!
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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
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Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. A book on German metaphysics would thus easily ruin a dress suit.
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From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
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Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.
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Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours
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Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future
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I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.
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We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
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I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.
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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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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.
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A genius is a talented person who does his homework.
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If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
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There's a way to do it better - find it.
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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
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Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward..
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