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Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.
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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Thomas A. Edison
Thomas Edison
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Remember, life is all what you focus on. Learn lessons and keep moving forward towards your goals and dreams... I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
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A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job
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When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.
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I think work is the world's greatest fun.
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Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration
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To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction -- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
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There is always a better way.
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An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.
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I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
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Friendship is the heaven of life.
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My mother was the making of me.
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The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
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The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
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So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.
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The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise
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The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.
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The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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