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Success is the result of hard work.
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 have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting...not only on account of danger, but because of their general unreliability and unsuitability for any general system of distribution.
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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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The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
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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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Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
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I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I realized very early that this was the only possible way for me to work out all the problems.
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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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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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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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I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.
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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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Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man.
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I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.
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Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination
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Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!
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The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~
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