"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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"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.“
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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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