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I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'
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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Thomas A. Edison
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My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill….
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Nobody knows whether our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere, but if we can evolve an instrument so delicate to be manipulated by our personality as it survives in the next life such an instrument ought to record something.
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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
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I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
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Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
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My mother was the making of me.
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Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.
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Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You've got to make the damn thing work!...I failed my way to success.
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Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
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A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.
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There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.
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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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The value of a good idea is in using it.
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I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.
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