First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you.

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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

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God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut.

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There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.

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You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

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Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

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Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.

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The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.

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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

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A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

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