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Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey.


Charles Edison

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THOMAS ALVA EDISON I never did anything worth doing by accident; nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they ca...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
THOMAS A. EDISON Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, o...
THOMAS A. EDISON I have never failed, I've only shown the way I did it before doesn't work.
THOMAS A. EDISON