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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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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
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The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
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It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere.
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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
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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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I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.
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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
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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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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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The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
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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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A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job
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Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!
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Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.
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I'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!
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Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration
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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
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Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man.
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I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'
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Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.
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