Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.


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THOMAS A. EDISON The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and C...
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Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual ac...
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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and ...
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I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousan...
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Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep t...
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If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
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Hell, there are no rules here,we are trying to accomplish something.
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The first step is an intuition and it comes with a burst, then difficulties arise - this thing gives...
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There is no expedient to which a man will go to avoid the real labor of thinking.
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave...
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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
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We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
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I never did anything worth doing by accident; nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they ca...
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When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
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Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, o...
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I have never failed, I've only shown the way I did it before doesn't work.
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