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My mother was the making of me.
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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Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.
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There is time for everything.
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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
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Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!
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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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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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In 'Common Sense' Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again.
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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
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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.
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If there is a better solution... find it.
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Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
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It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!
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The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast
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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 have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting...not only on account of danger, but because of their general unreliability and unsuitability for any general system of distribution.
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My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
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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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I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.
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They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
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