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I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.
Thomas A. Edison
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Thomas A. Edison
Age: 84 †
Born: 1847
Born: February 11
Died: 1931
Died: October 18
Businessperson
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Film Director
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Milan
Ohio
Thomas A. Edison
Thomas Edison
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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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I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.
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I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
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I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'
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Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
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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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