I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great … - Thomas A. Edison

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Structure influences behavior. Design spaces that make you feel "you are welcome here and that you came to the right place. "

Thomas A. Edison

I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could be got commercial; but here was something there was no doubt of.

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I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. . . I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

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When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

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The secret of success is focus of purpose.

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The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

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Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours

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Structure influences behavior. Design spaces that make you feel "you are welcome here and that you came to the right place. "

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Louis Pullig De Gouy

Soups challenge us, because an enticing flavorful stew can be as different from the thin watery beverage sometimes erroneously called soup as a genuine green turtle is from the mock turtle.

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Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't have tons of scripts where I don't know what to choose and I'm trying to calculate. It's either I read something and I have an impulse to do it, or in meeting someone, I want to work with them, but it's always been very obvious.

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Georg C. Lichtenberg

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

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Donald Trump

I do want to say that I was just endorsed - and more are coming next week - it will be over 200 admirals, many of them here - admirals and generals endorsed me to lead this country. That just happened, and many more are coming. And I'm very proud of it.

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