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Friendship is the heaven of life.
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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People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward
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As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
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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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Vision without execution is delusion.
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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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The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.
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Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best
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Success is the result of hard work.
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Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!
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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
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My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
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Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.
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Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
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When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
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The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.
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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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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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