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A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was 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 never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
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Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.
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The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.
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Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
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When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
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Success is the result of hard work.
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The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.
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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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Youth doesn't take advice.
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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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The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.
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A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job
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I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
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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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I failed my way to success.
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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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Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.
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From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
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There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.
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