The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.
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The finest gift you can give anyone is encoragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.
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A genius is just a talented person who does his homework.
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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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.
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If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.
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If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as candle making industry threatened.
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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.
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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent 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. The scope of thrift is limitless.
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They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
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I shall make electricity so cheap that only the rich can afford to burn candles
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Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
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Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight
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The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will educate his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
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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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All Bibles are man-made.
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If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
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Everything comes to he who hustles while he waits.
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A little twist to the usual, Everything comes to he who waits. Everythingcomes to him who hustles while he waits.
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work.
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There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
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