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“ The most successful men, in the end, are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. ”

“ One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA. ”

“ I have heard articulate speech produced by sunlight I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing! I have been able to hear a shadow, and I have even perceived by ear the passage of a cloud across the sun's disk. ”

“ 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. ”

“ The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent. ”

“ The final result of our researches has widened the class of substances sensitive to light vibrations until we can propound the fact of such sensitiveness being a general property of all matter. ”

“ Boston is par excellence the home of the telephone, for it was here that all the apparatus was made and where the important experiments went on. ”

“ Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires. ”

“ Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem. ”

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