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Thomas A. Edison
Age: 84 †
Born: 1847
Born: February 11
Died: 1931
Died: October 18
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I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on I then shouted Mary had a little lamb, etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly. On first words spoken on a phonograph.
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All bibles are man-made.
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Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration
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Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours
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The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
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The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.
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The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.
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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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There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
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I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it
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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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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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I think work is the world's greatest fun.
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I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.
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I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.
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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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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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Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future
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