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" When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes. "
Thomas A. Edison
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" The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants. "
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" To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. "
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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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" I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. "
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