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The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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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A lawsuit is the suicide of time.
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
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I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard 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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Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.
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Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
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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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When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
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Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.
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Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best
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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
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The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.
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Youth doesn't take advice.
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Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
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They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
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Success is the result of hard work.
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Friendship is the heaven of life.
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The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.
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I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
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