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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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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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The greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen. Spiritual power is the greatest underdeveloped power and has the greatest future.
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I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.
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When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right.
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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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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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The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.
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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
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Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best
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Friendship is the heaven of life.
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We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
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Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination
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A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job
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Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
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