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Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe.
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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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
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We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
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Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!
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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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I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.
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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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I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.
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A lawsuit is the suicide of time.
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Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward..
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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
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