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The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.
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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Thomas A. Edison
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I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor
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There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.
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There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
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I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
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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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Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.
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Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.
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The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.
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They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying
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My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
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When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
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I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
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Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.
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Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.
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I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.
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Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.
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I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.
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