Opportunity is often missed because it comes dressed in ove… - Thomas Edison

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Opportunity is often missed because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas Edison

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Thomas Alva Edison (11 February 1847 – 18 October 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life worldwide into the twenty-first century.

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Birth Name: Thomas Alva Edison

Alternative Names: Thomas A. Edison • Edison

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it. What a soul may be is beyond my understanding.

Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.

Opportunity is often missed because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison

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