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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.
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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A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.
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Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.
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To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. 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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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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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
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Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man.
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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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Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.
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A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.
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