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Thomas Alva Edison

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There will be significant tuition increases behind this. There is no way to avoid that.
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THOMAS A. EDISON
Hell, there are no rules here--we're trying to accomplish something.
THOMAS A. EDISON
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
THOMAS A. EDISON
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
THOMAS A. EDISON
If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wr...
THOMAS A. EDISON
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
THOMAS A. EDISON
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
THOMAS A. EDISON
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of...
THOMAS A. EDISON
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
THOMAS A. EDISON
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
THOMAS A. EDISON
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
THOMAS A. EDISON
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident
THOMAS A. EDISON
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
THOMAS A. EDISON
Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something.
THOMAS A. EDISON
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a ...
THOMAS A. EDISON
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
THOMAS A. EDISON
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whisky.
THOMAS A. EDISON
He had all the attributes...
THOMAS A. EDISON It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and ...
THOMAS A. EDISON
I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousan...
THOMAS A. EDISON
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep t...
THOMAS A. 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