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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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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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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.
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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
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As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
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An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.
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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
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Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.
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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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I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep.
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
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Do the thing and the power will come.
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The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.
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