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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 would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.
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This problem, once solved, will be simple.
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A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.
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The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.
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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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Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.
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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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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
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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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Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.
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My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill….
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I think work is the world's greatest fun.
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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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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
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I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
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I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
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I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep.
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There's a way to do it better - find it.
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Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.
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We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
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