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Thomas Alva Edison: “The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.
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Thomas Edison: “I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
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Thomas Alva Edison: “I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait 'til oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
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Thomas Edison: “The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
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Thomas Alva Edison: “I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.
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Thomas Alva Edison: “The value of an idea lies in using it.
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Thomas Alva Edison: “If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
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Thomas Alva Edison: “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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Thomas Alva Edison: “Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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Thomas Alva Edison: “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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Thomas Alva Edison: “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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Thomas Alva Edison: “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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Thomas Alva Edison: “Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
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Thomas Alva Edison: “I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
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