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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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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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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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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
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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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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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I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.
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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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I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
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Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
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Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.
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The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
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I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I realized very early that this was the only possible way for me to work out all the problems.
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
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Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
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The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
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