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" I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. "

Thomas A. Edison

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" Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. "

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" Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! "

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" What you are will show in what you do. "

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" There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. "

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" I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. "

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" I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. "

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" There is no substitute for hard work. "

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" Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged. "

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" Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. "

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