The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELLWhen 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.
More Alexander Graham Bell Quotes
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What this power is, I cannot say All I know is that it exists.
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
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Wherever you may find the inventor, you may give him wealth or you may take from him all that he has; and he will go on inventing. He can no more help inventing that he can help thinking or breathing.
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With every door that closes a new one opens.
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There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.
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Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.
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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 achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
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I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all!
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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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The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.
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First words on the first telephone – “Mr. Watson – come here – I want to see you.”
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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
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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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I have always considered myself as an Agnostic.
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