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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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Thomas A. Edison
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My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
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Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
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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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The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
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X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.
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Seeming to do is not doing.
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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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What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.
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The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.
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I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I realized very early that this was the only possible way for me to work out all the problems.
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.
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This problem, once solved, will be simple.
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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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The secret of success is focus of purpose.
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