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The value of a good idea is in using it.
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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I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.
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I was at the foot of my class.
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Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
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The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.
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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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Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
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I'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!
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