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I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
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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The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~
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I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.
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