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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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When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
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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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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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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.
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Friendship is the heaven of life.
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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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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 thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast
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Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!
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A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.
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We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.
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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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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
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