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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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Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.
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In 'Common Sense' Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again.
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I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
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A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.
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I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on I then shouted Mary had a little lamb, etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly. On first words spoken on a phonograph.
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I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.
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The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.
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I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep.
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As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure.
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Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.
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I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.
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I think work is the world's greatest fun.
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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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I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.
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There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.
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The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
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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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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.
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