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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. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
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Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.
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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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I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep.
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If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
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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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My mother was the making of me.
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.
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I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
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X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise
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I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could be got commercial but here was something there was no doubt of.
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.
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I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.
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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
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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 chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
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