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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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Thomas A. Edison
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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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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
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We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.
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I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it
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If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.
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I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'
Thomas A. Edison
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
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They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying
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Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!
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The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization.... Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
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I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure
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There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.
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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
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Success is the result of hard work.
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There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.
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When you become quiet, it just dawns on you
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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
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