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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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I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
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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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Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.
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I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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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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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
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The value of a good idea is in using it.
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I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on I then shouted Mary had a little lamb, etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly. On first words spoken on a phonograph.
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In 'Common Sense' Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again.
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There is no subsitute for hard work.
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Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.
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We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.
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The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.
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