I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. My main purpose in life is to make money so that I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
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There is almost no limit to which man will not go to avoid thinking.
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Five percent of the people think ten percent of the people think they think and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
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Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
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A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.
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