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None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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 afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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If there is a better solution... find it.
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