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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.
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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Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.
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Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.
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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.
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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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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill….
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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.
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The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
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Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.
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A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.
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They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying
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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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