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Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
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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So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.
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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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I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.
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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.
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The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
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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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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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