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Been Quotes by Thomas A. Edison
- It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that…
- I am wondering what would have happened to me if some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced…
- I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to…
- It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the…
- The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime…
- If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.
- The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
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