"Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals..." - Quote by Thomas Edison
Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.
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“I didn’t fail ten thousand times.I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times,materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.”
“Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.”
“A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.”
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“I'm certainly dismayed by what I'm seeing now. There's a lot of ugliness of a kind I've never seen in my lifetime, or heard in my lifetime. But, look, I'm a romantic. I'm hopeful.”
“Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.”
“That's part of what I tried to describe to my team and supporters after the election, there was a lot of disappointment.”
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“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'”
“Nothing once begun should be abandoned, unless it is proved to be morally wrong.”
“We are plunged in a long and grievous struggle. But all will come right if we all work together to the end.”