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Seeming to do is not doing.
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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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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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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I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.
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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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The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.
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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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I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.
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Friendship is the heaven of life.
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Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.
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Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
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Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.
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Work while others are wishing.
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We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.
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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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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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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 think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.
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The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.
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