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I'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!

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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My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill….
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I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'
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I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.
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When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
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Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.
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To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
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Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!
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I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.
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I know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It required Infinite Intelligence to create it and it requires Infinite Intelligence to keep it on its course ... It is mathematical in its precision.
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You've got to make the damn thing work!...I failed my way to success.
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