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To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.
Thomas A. Edison
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Thomas A. Edison
Age: 84 †
Born: 1847
Born: February 11
Died: 1931
Died: October 18
Businessperson
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Film Director
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Ohio
Thomas A. Edison
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I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
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Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
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When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
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The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.
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When you become quiet, it just dawns on you
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People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward
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I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.
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A genius is a talented person who does his homework.
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My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.
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Nobody knows whether our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere, but if we can evolve an instrument so delicate to be manipulated by our personality as it survives in the next life such an instrument ought to record something.
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I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.
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I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.
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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
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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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They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
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Remember, life is all what you focus on. Learn lessons and keep moving forward towards your goals and dreams... I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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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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