Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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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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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
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There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.
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The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.
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It is very beautiful over there. (last words)
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Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
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People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward.
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Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.
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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
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I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep.
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When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
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We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of the Bon Dieu that we cannot read each others minds, twould stop civilization and everybody would take to the woods. In fifty or hundred thousand centuries when mankind have become perfect by evolution then perhaps this sense could be developed with safety to the state.
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Interest is the invention of Satan.