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Youth doesn't take advice.
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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Ohio
Thomas A. Edison
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When you become quiet, it just dawns on you
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If there is a better solution... find it.
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When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.
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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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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.
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I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
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I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.
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I was at the foot of my class.
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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.
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Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
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The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.
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I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting...not only on account of danger, but because of their general unreliability and unsuitability for any general system of distribution.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise
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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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Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.
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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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I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'
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