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When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right.
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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Thomas A. Edison
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Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl.
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I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
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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 failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
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It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!
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Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
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If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.
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To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. 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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Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!
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I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.
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To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
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They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying
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The radio craze will die out in time.
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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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I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.
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