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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.

Discontent Failure First Man
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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.

Abandon Absolutely Appalled Brain
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Genius Inspiration Ninety-Nine Ninety-Nine Percent
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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.

After Ahead Decided Fully
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Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

Become Develops Discouraged Every
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There is no substitute for hard work.
Hard Hard Work Substitute Work
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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.

Accomplishment Always Being Being Busy
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What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
Character Control Create Man
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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Calls Continue Find Greatest
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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Astonishing Brains Definitely Effort
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The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

Idea Lies Using Value
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The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

Around Because Goes Hard
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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

Been Best Done Has-Been
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What you are will show in what you do.

Show Will You What
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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
Body Cells Community Inhabitants
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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Always America Be Brave Before
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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.

Anything Invent Proof Sale
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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Am Fact I Am Invented
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Achieve Anything Common Essentials
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I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

Behind Denying Everything Exists
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To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

Art Masters Mind Old
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I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

Day Did Fun Life
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Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Balance Happiness Harmony Intensity
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We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.

Alone Also Begin Convinced
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When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Ambition Begins Ends Happiness
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Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

Earth Event Every His
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The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

Contradictions God Life Me
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Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

Deepening Find Future Hope
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Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

Christ Dry Eyes Feet
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October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

America Anything Begin Catalogue
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Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

Anything Anything Else Attachment Else
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I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

Freedom Gives I Love Life
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I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.

Each Family Felt Life
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The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

Around Attempt Balloons Finding
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And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

Challenge Obviously Our Own
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So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.

Airline Create Else Experience
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Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Backing Between Business Dividing
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I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.

Certainly Dyslexic Failed Grasp
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You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Doing Falling Following Learn
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My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, 'Oh God, I've got to do this today.'

Anything Attitude Day Enjoy
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My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

Any Around Invest Money
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Art Friendship Give Philosophy
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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

Cell Darkness Diminish Glory
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
Aim Earth Heaven Neither
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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Achievement Fails Failures Finger
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Noticed Often Original Originality
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Ahead Behind Better Kind
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

True Christianity False Importance
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Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.

Always Direct Implement Keep
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When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.

World Christ Died Individually
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