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Genius is 1 per cent. inspiration and 99 per cent. perspiration.

Thomas A. Edisonprobable·Edison: His Life and Inventions, by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin·1910

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness

Thomas Jeffersonprobable·The Declaration of Independence·July 4, 1776