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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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I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.
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Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.
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A man’s best friend is a good wife.
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I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.
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Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 foundations and individual donors whose priorities don't align with my organization's.
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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.
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I was at the foot of my class.
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I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.
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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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I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.
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Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one of the torments of Hades I could imagine a doomed mortal made to untangle wet fish lines forever. Everybody lost patience at the stupidity of the fish in not coming forward promptly to be murdered.
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