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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

~Thomas A. Edison

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The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

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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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I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

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Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Inventor

Born: February 11th, 1847

Died: October 18th, 1931

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