"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
-Thomas A. Edison
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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.“
-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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