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The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
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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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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When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.
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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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Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.
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If there is a better solution... find it.
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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
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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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Do the thing and the power will come.
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.
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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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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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I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
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