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“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

Thomas A. Edison · Work

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Thomas A. Edison

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

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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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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

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I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

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