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Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't.
It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
perspiration. Accordingly a genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
There is time for everything.
What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Religion is all bunk.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
There is no substitute for hard work.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.