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I think work is the world's greatest fun.
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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Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.
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An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.
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Work while others are wishing.
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To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction -- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
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There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.
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There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.
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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.
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My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.
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The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.
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Success is the result of hard work.
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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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I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
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The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.
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It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!
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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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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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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
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