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Work while others are wishing.
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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None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.
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The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.
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I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.
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The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
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The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill….
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