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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
[ Worry ]
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Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
[ Discontent ]
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
[ Patience ]
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
[ Genius ]
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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
[ Ideas ]
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Hell, there are no rules here, we are trying to accomplish something.
[ Rules ]
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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
[ Failure ]
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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
[ Invention and Inventor ]
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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.
[ Failure ]
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I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
[ Work ]
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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
[ Work ]
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I start where the last man left off.
[ Excellence ]
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If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.
[ Possibilities ]
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
[ Failure ]
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Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
[ Maturity ]
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.
[ Opportunity ]
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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
[ Results ]
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
[ Satisfaction ]
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The best thinking has been done in solitude.
[ Solitude ]
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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
[ Body ]
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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around
[ Mind ]
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The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
[ Ideas ]
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There ain't no rules around here, we're trying to accomplish something.
[ Trying ]
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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
[ Opportunity ]
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There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
[ Thoughts and Thinking ]
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There is no substitute for hard work.
[ Work, Hard ]
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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
[ Ideas ]
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To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
[ Scarcity ]
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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.
[ Knowledge ]
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What man's mind can create, man's character can control.
[ Control ]
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What you are will show in what you do.
[ Action ]
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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
[ Worth ]
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