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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison
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Thomas A. Edison
Age: 84 †
Born: 1847
Born: February 11
Died: 1931
Died: October 18
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
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I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.
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Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one of the torments of Hades I could imagine a doomed mortal made to untangle wet fish lines forever. Everybody lost patience at the stupidity of the fish in not coming forward promptly to be murdered.
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A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.
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I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.
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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
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I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.
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