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Quotes by Thomas Alva Edison in Men category:
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"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." 4.3333 average rating  
"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." 5.0000 average rating  
"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." 3.9231 average rating  
"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."  
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." 4.7500 average rating