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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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Genius is 1 per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration.
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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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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
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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's just a waste of time. Nobody'll ever use it. Too dangerous!
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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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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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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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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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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
February 11, 1847
Died:
October 18, 1931
(aged 84)
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