Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
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Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, "No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.".
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My mother was the making of me.
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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
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The secret of success is focus of purpose.
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When you become quiet, it just dawns on you.
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When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
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Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
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Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of disease. Medicine is played out. Every new discovery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless.
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If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.
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Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
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I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
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I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
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Never be discouraged, because every wrong turn attempt, when left behind you, is another step forward taking you closer to your goals.
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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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Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. A book on German metaphysics would thus easily ruin a dress suit.
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The dove is my emblem.
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There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.
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The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.
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All bibles are man-made.
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Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
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I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!
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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.