Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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When you become quiet, it just dawns on you.
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The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.
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I never once failed at making a light bulb. I just found out 99 ways not to make one.
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I have had a lot of success with failure
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I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.
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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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No Such Thing as Bad Results.
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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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We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
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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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The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics, this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes cigarettes.
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I get my ideas from listening from within.
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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
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The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.
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Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
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I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could be got commercial; but here was something there was no doubt of.
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph.
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There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.
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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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There is no substitute for hard work.