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Alexander Graham Bell
Scottish
Inventor
Born:
Mar 3
,
1847
Died:
Aug 2
,
1922
Believe
Man
Men
Will
Work
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.
Alexander Graham Bell
Long
Closed
See
Opened
Look
Opens
Another
Closes
Often
Door
Which
Us
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Alexander Graham Bell
Work
Thoughts
Focus
Sun
Brought
Rays
Concentrate
Until
Hand
Burn
Your
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
Alexander Graham Bell
Too Late
Sometimes
Long
Too
Late
See
Open
Closing
Door
Stare
Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.
Alexander Graham Bell
You
Intelligence
Will
Nation
Masses
Educate
Successful
Certainly
Standard
Elevate
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
Alexander Graham Bell
Man
Owes
Rule
Born
General
General Rule
He
Himself
Makes
Very
Little
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.
Alexander Graham Bell
Man
Mind
Power
State
Say
Exactly
Finds
Exactly What
Determined
Only
He
Know
Until
Knows
Becomes
Exists
Quit
Wants
Cannot
Which
Available
Fully
I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.
Alexander Graham Bell
You
Man
Justice
People
Impress
Believe
Minds
Say
Says
Would
People Say
Rather
Fact
He
Himself
Than
Want
Should
Your
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
Alexander Graham Bell
Success
Result
Men
Those
Steady
Most
End
Accretion
In The End
Success Is
Successful
Whose
America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
Alexander Graham Bell
Men
Country
Inventors
Greatest
America
Newspaper
A man's own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.
Alexander Graham Bell
Man
Judgment
Own
Relates
Final
Himself
Should
Appeal
Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
Alexander Graham Bell
Army
Protection
Neither
Aerial
Nor
Very
Any
Against
Little
Navy
Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don't intend to give in either till all is completed.
Alexander Graham Bell
Difficulties
Completed
Give
Only
He
Morse
Although
Till
His
Intend
Either
Electrical
Painter
Conquered
I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.
Alexander Graham Bell
Love
Friendship
Feeling
Pupil
Fact
Mere
Sincerely
Know
Learned
Dear
Discovered
Very
Than
In Fact
Interest
To Love
Far
Deeper
Her
Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired.
Alexander Graham Bell
Medium
Born
Fact
Never
Instruction
Deaf
Learns
How
Hearing
Articulate
Child
Acquired
Consequently
It is a neck-and-neck race between Mr. Gray and myself who shall complete our apparatus first. He has the advantage over me in being a practical electrician - but I have reason to believe that I am better acquainted with the phenomena of sound than he is - so that I have an advantage there.
Alexander Graham Bell
Myself
Me
Better
First
Believe
Complete
Our
Shall
He
Advantage
Between
Over
Practical
Sound
Am
Than
Being
Race
Acquainted
Apparatus
Electrician
Reason
Who
Gray
Phenomena
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.
Alexander Graham Bell
Time
Problem
Believe
Enough
Spend
Minds
Indeed
Would
Solution
Scarcely
Seem
Vocal
Feasible
Idea
Over
Most
Got
Cue
Sounds
However
Working
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