I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident.

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Results Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

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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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Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I have stolen a lot myself. But at least I know how to steal.

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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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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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Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

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I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

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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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