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.

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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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"Tuesday is a day to finish what’s left undone on Monday and prepare for what’s coming on Wednesday."

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"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well."

- Mark Twain

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"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done."

- Bruce Lee

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"We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things."

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"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves."

- Dale Carnegie

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