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Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours

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 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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Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future
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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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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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As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
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Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
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The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.
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I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.
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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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Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
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Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one of the torments of Hades — I could imagine a doomed mortal made to untangle wet fish lines forever. Everybody lost patience at the stupidity of the fish in not coming forward promptly to be murdered.
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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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There is time for everything.
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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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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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I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.
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A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job
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Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination
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There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.
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