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There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.
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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Ohio
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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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An idea is something that won't work unless you do.
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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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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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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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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 would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.
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I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.
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The radio craze will die out in time.
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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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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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The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.
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I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
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We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.
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There is time for everything.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise
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Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
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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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I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.
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