"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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"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.“
-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."
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