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I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.
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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Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.
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Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
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There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
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If there is a better solution... find it.
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.
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Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man.
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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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