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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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Top 5 quotes from Thomas Edison
"Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged."
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work."
"There's a way to do it better - find it."
"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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"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."
"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."
"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."
"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
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