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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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A good lover? One percent talent and ninety nine percent hard work.
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Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration!
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And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
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THOMAS A. EDISON
I'll never understand ninety-nine percent of humanity. - Enoch
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Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.
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Ninety-nine percent of this game is between your ears. When he got out of the second, he was really ...
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There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
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Ninety-nine percent of what we do is old houses.
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Ninety-nine percent of requested deaths go unrecorded. It's a secret crime.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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Ninety-nine percent of television shows, I've never seen.
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Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.
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Ninety-nine percent of the fish we see are non-game fish.
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Ninety-nine percent of Indian people loved me and they still love me.
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I remember on one of my many visits with JOSEPH LEWIS One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interest.
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures comes from people who have the habit of making excuses
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The recurrence of a phenomenon like [Thomas] Edison is not very likely. The profound change of condi...
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Ninety-nine percent of the money goes out. There is no administrative cost, no salaries.
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Ninety percent of the community is related to one side or the other.
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Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes...
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Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect.
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I am the Thomas Edison of conversational stupidity.
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Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of c...
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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
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a brief address, in which he said that one of his chief reasons for wanting to go to Washington was ...
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Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.
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The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules: The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety perce...
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -Thomas Edison.
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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...
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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...
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There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first.
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There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first.
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Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the un...
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He was determined to beat it. He was quite an inspiration to all of us.
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Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the juk...
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More than ninety-five percent of your brain activity, as you consciously read this sentence, is bein...
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Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.
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Death is tough for the people left behind on earth.
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I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla.
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Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.
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a tongue has no bones but it is strong enough to break the heart so be carefull about ur words
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THOMAS ALVA EDISON
Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides a...
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I do not believe that any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the ...
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All Bibles are man-made
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Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth
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Vision without execution is hallucination.
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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialit...
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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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Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-i...
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Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
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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 never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
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A little twist to the usual, "Everything comes to he who waits". Everything comes to him who hustles...
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Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then h...
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I'm proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill
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We now know a thousand ways not to build a light bulb
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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment an...
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We do not know one millionth of one percent about anything.
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