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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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Ohio
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I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could be got commercial but here was something there was no doubt of.
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A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.
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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!
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If there is a better solution... find it.
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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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There is no subsitute for hard work.
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Seeming to do is not doing.
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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
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A man’s best friend is a good wife.
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Nobody knows whether our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere, but if we can evolve an instrument so delicate to be manipulated by our personality as it survives in the next life such an instrument ought to record something.
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There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.
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My mother was the making of me.
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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
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Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.
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The value of a good idea is in using it.
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
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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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