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An idea is something that won't work unless you do.
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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When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.
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None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
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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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A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job
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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.
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The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.
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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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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
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I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
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I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
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There is time for everything.
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Success is the result of hard work.
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
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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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I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
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Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
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We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
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