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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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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 real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.
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To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction -- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.
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I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.
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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
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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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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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The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.
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The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.
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There is no subsitute for hard work.
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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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Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one of the torments of Hades I could imagine a doomed mortal made to untangle wet fish lines forever. Everybody lost patience at the stupidity of the fish in not coming forward promptly to be murdered.
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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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From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
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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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I have had a lot of success with failure
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Absorb ideas from every source.
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