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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
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Thomas A. Edison
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.
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Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.
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I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting...not only on account of danger, but because of their general unreliability and unsuitability for any general system of distribution.
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The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
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I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.
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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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It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.
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Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
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Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
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Consider data without prejudice.
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Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
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The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
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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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Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.
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A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job
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My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
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