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What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.
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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To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction -- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
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They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying
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A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
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The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
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People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.
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The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
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When you become quiet, it just dawns on you
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I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
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For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
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There is no subsitute for hard work.
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Youth doesn't take advice.
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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.
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I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it
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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 did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.
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