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In 'Common Sense' Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again.
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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As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
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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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Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.
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We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
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We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.
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The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~
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When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right.
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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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The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
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The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
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I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.
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