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Thomas Alva Edison Quotes

«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.»
«I never did anything worth doing by accident; nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work»
«Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.»
«There is no substitute for hard work.»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison (Inventor) | Keywords: substitute
«The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison (Inventor) | About: Thinking | Keywords: turmoil
«I shall make electricity so cheap that only the rich can afford to burn candles»
«The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.»
«Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.»
«We now know a thousand ways not to build a light bulb»
«Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.»

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