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" Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. "
Thomas A. Edison
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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 chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. "
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" The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil. "
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" Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Discontent is the first necessity of progress. "
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" We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. "
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" I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. "
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" It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work. "
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" The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants. "
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" To have a great idea, have a lot of them. "
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" To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. "
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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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" The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. "
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" Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have. "
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" I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision. "
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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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" 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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" 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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