Quotes by Thomas A. Edison

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  • To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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  • Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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  • Many of life's failures are those who didn't know how close they were to success when they gave up.
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  • I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.
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  • All Bibles are man-made.
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  • Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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  • Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
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  • Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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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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  • Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something.
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  • There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
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  • Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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  • We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
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  • Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
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