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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.
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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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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Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
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The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
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Being busy does not always mean real work.
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I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.
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I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting...not only on account of danger, but because of their general unreliability and unsuitability for any general system of distribution.
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Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.
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I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I realized very early that this was the only possible way for me to work out all the problems.
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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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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
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The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.
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I failed my way to success.
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I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
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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 know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It required Infinite Intelligence to create it and it requires Infinite Intelligence to keep it on its course ... It is mathematical in its precision.
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Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best
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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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I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.
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The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
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