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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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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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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
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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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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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Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.
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Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
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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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To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
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The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.
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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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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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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
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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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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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The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
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I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.
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I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.
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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
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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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