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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas Alva Edison.
Topic: Choice
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Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.
Topic: Energy
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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another
step forward.
Topic: Inspirational
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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
Topic: Inspirational
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Topic: Inspirational
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in
overalls and looks like work.
Topic: Inspirational
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Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several
thousand things that won't work.
Topic: Inspirational
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What you are will show in what you do.
Topic: Inspirational
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
Topic: Inspirational
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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or
inhabitants.
Topic: Inspirational
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There is no substitute for hard work.
Topic: Inspirational
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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.
Topic: Inspirational
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I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
Topic: Inspirational
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Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Topic: Inspirational
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There is no expedient to which a man will go to avoid the real labor of
thinking.
Topic: Inspirational
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Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.
Topic: Inspirational
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Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.
Topic: Inspirational
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Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it
looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to
become discouraged.
Topic: Inspirational
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Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.
Topic: Nerves
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I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. My main purpose in life is to make money so that I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Topic: Science and Technology
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I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. The dove is my emblem.
Topic: Science and Technology
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I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident and none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They came about by hard work.
Topic: Science and Technology
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I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
Topic: Science and Technology
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Someday man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Topic: Science and Technology
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Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best. Life's most soothing things are sweet music and a child's goodnight.
Topic: Science and Technology
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Topic: Science and Technology
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I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.
Topic: Slackers
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