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Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
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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We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. ... 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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I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
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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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There is always a better way.
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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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Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere.
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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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Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.
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I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.
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What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.
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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
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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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There is no subsitute for hard work.
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The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.
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Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.
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Absorb ideas from every source.
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I failed my way to success.
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