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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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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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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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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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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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There is time for everything.
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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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We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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Work while others are wishing.
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I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.
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Do the thing and the power will come.
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The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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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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Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours
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There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.
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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
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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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Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!
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I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.
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