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Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man.
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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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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The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.
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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.
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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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Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.
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I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
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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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My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
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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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There's a way to do it better - find it.
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I have had a lot of success with failure
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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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