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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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My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill….
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I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
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From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.
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Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.
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This problem, once solved, will be simple.
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Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours
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I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.
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I failed my way to success.
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I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.
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I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.
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A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.
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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 know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It required Infinite Intelligence to create it and it requires Infinite Intelligence to keep it on its course ... It is mathematical in its precision.
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I was at the foot of my class.
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