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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
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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I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
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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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I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
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If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.
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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
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They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying
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A lawsuit is the suicide of time.
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My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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