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A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job
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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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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Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe.
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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
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The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.
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Friendship is the heaven of life.
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
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An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.
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To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
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I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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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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If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.
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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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Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward..
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I think work is the world's greatest fun.
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They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
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I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'
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