We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

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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."

- Thomas A. Edison

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"I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun."

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"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't."

- Thomas A. Edison

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"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."

- Thomas A. Edison

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"There is no substitute for hard work."

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"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck."

- Tony Robbins

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"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

- Beverly Sills

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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."

- Aristotle

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"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

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"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

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