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Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.
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'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!
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Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.
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I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.
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So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.
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Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.
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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
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The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
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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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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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I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.
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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
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I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
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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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The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization.... Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
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I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
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Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
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Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward..
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What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.
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I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could be got commercial but here was something there was no doubt of.
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