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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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