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Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration
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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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 never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.
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A genius is a talented person who does his homework.
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I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.
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X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.
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I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.
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When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
Thomas A. Edison
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!
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To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
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Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.
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People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.
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The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
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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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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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I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
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Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.
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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.
Thomas A. Edison
All bibles are man-made.
Thomas A. Edison
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
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