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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
Businessperson
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Milan
Ohio
Thomas A. Edison
Thomas Edison
Edison Thomas Alva
Crazy
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Civilization
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Friendship is the heaven of life.
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The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization.... Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
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Remember, life is all what you focus on. Learn lessons and keep moving forward towards your goals and dreams... I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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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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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
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Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
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I was at the foot of my class.
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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
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Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
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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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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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