"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
-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.“
-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 three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense."
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"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
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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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"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world."
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