( American inventor, scientist, and engineer) March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922
Alexander Graham Bell
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
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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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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
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Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
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A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.
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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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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
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When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
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Don’t keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone.
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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
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Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.
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Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do, you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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I have always considered myself as an Agnostic…
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The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
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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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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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Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.
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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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America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
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Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.
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The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.