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" I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun. "
Thomas A. Edison
Fun
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" Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. "
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" The value of an idea lies in the using of it. "
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" His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. "
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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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" We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. "
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" Religion is all bunk. "
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" The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. "
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" To have a great idea, have a lot of them. "
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" What you are will show in what you do. "
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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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" Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. "
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" The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants. "
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" Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. "
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" There is far more opportunity than there is ability. "
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Than
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" There's a way to do it better - find it. "
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Way
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" Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless. "
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" I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. "
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" To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. "
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Good
Imagination
" One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. "
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" There is no substitute for hard work. "
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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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Three
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" Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. "
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