"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work."
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"The beginning is the most important part of the work."
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"Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences."
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"More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way."
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