There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELLWherever 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.
More Alexander Graham Bell Quotes
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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.
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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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What this power is, I cannot say All I know is that it exists.
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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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Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.
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One day every major city in America will have a telephone.
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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
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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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It is the man who carefully advances step by step, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
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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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I have always considered myself as an Agnostic.
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With every door that closes a new one opens.
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When one door closes, another one opens.
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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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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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