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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

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

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We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

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The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell.

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

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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

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The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.

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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

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I find out what the world needs. Then, I go ahead and invent it.
Variant: I find out what the world needs; then I go ahead and try to invent it,

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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

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I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.

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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

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If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

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So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake … Religion is all bunk.

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I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.

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Fooling around with alternating current is just a waste of time. Nobody'll ever use it. Too dangerous!
Said to Nikola Tesla

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I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt

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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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We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

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The man who doesn't make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.

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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.

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Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!

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For most of my life I refused to work at any problem unless its solution seemed to be capable of being put to commercial use.

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The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train the mind to think.

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What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.

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Ninety eight per cent of genius is hard work. As for genius being inspired, inspiration is in most cases another word for perspiration.

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Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly.

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I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

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Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.

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I am going to have a sign put up all over my plant, reading "There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking."

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