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I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
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 am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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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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Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.
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Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.
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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
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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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