If we did all the things we were capable of doing, We would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas Alva Edison
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
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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.
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Hell, there are no rules here we're trying to accomplish something.
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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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Results Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
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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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We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Everything comes to he who hustles while he waits.
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years.
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Genius is 1 inspiration and 99 perspiration.
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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