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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.

~Alexander Graham Bell

Topics: Air Control Nation Ultimately Will World

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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

~Alexander Graham Bell

Topics: Available Becomes Cannot Determined Exactly Exactly What Exists Finds Fully He Know Knows Man Mind Only Power Quit Say State Until Wants Which

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I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man's private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious... I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.

~Alexander Graham Bell

Topics: Advancement Am Break Concerned Curious Dissect Door Even Examination Far Front Front Door Gaze Life Living Man Men Order Post Prefer Private Private Life Public Recognize Right Satisfy Science Think Without I Am

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America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

~Alexander Graham Bell

Topics: America Country Greatest Inventors Men Newspaper

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I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

~Alexander Graham Bell

Topics: Believe Fact He Himself Impress Justice Man Minds People People Say Rather Say Says Should Than Want Would You Your

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It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say 'oral method' to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say 'sign language' to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

~Alexander Graham Bell

Topics: Aroused Both Both Sides Bull Deepest Difficult Down Exaggeration Face Flag Found Hardly Intolerance Language Like Method Oral Red Resentment Room Same Say Sides Sign Sit Teacher Teachers Waving Without

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

~Alexander Graham Bell

Topics: End In The End Men Most Result Steady Success Success Is Successful Those Whose

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From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and I was urged by my father to study everything relating to these subjects, as they would have an important bearing upon what was to be my professional work.

~Alexander Graham Bell

Topics: Attention Bearing Childhood Directed Earliest Everything Father Important Professional Relating Speech Study Subject Subjects Urged Work Would

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A man's own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

~Alexander Graham Bell

Topics: Appeal Final Himself Judgment Man Own Relates Should

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It is a neck-and-neck race between Mr. Gray and myself who shall complete our apparatus first. He has the advantage over me in being a practical electrician - but I have reason to believe that I am better acquainted with the phenomena of sound than he is - so that I have an advantage there.

~Alexander Graham Bell

Topics: Acquainted Advantage Am Apparatus Being Believe Better Between Complete Electrician First Gray He Me Myself Our Over Phenomena Practical Race Reason Shall Sound Than Who I Am Mr

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Inventor

Born: March 3rd, 1847

Died: August 2nd, 1922

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