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Thomas A. Edison
Age: 84 †
Born: 1847
Born: February 11
Died: 1931
Died: October 18
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
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I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.
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There is time for everything.
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A man’s best friend is a good wife.
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Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man.
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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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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.
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As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure.
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It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere.
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Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one of the torments of Hades I could imagine a doomed mortal made to untangle wet fish lines forever. Everybody lost patience at the stupidity of the fish in not coming forward promptly to be murdered.
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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
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I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
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The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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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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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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A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
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I think work is the world's greatest fun.
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I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
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