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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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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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Remember, life is all what you focus on. Learn lessons and keep moving forward towards your goals and dreams... I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
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I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.
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This problem, once solved, will be simple.
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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.
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The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization.... Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
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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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It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.
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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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I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.
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People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.
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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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A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.
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The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
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I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.
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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas A. Edison
Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.
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