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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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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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If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
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To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.
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When you become quiet, it just dawns on you
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The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.
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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 successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
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There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.
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I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.
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