"I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success."
-Thomas A. Edison
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"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."
-Thomas A. Edison
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"One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success."
-Thomas A. Edison
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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."
-Thomas A. Edison
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"I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work."
-Thomas A. Edison
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"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense."
-Thomas A. Edison
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-Horace
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"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."
-Adam Smith
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"Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas."
-Cher
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