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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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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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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 real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded 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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The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
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The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization.... Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
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It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.
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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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Nobody knows whether our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere, but if we can evolve an instrument so delicate to be manipulated by our personality as it survives in the next life such an instrument ought to record something.
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We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.
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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
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I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.
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My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 foundations and individual donors whose priorities don't align with my organization's.
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