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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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I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
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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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Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.
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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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The value of a good idea is in using it.
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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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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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The greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen. Spiritual power is the greatest underdeveloped power and has the greatest future.
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I know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It required Infinite Intelligence to create it and it requires Infinite Intelligence to keep it on its course ... It is mathematical in its precision.
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A man’s best friend is a good wife.
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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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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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As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
Thomas A. Edison
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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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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Do the thing and the power will come.
Thomas A. Edison
The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
Thomas A. Edison
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.
Thomas A. Edison
I have had a lot of success with failure
Thomas A. Edison
I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.
Thomas A. Edison
