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I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
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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Work while others are wishing.
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I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.
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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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A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.
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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.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise
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An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.
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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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Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.
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