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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 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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I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.
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Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future
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The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.
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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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Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
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Do the thing and the power will come.
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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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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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I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.
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Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.
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They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
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When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right.
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I failed my way to success.
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