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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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When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.
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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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Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!
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The secret of success is focus of purpose.
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The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.
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My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.
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Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. A book on German metaphysics would thus easily ruin a dress suit.
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I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.
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From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
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The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.
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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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When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
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I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep.
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I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
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In 'Common Sense' Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again.
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Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!
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I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.
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Do the thing and the power will come.
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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
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My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
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