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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.
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 will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
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People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.
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