Genius is one percent inspiration‚ ninety-nine percent perspiration. * Spoken statement (c. 1903); published in Harper’s Monthly (September 1932) * Variants: * None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. * Statement in a press conference (1929)‚ as quoted in Uncommon Friends: Life with Thomas Edison‚ Henry Ford‚ Harvey
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Kevin Joseph English 11 Mrs. Kennedy-Brooks Period 3 11/18/09 How does Injustice Negatively Affect a Community? What is injustice? Injustice can be defined as an abuse of power‚ tarnished reputations‚ and death to the innocent. When people in a community are treated differently it makes people feel out of place. It makes them think that they do not belong. The book Honky talks about the author of the book‚ Dalton Conley. His family is the only white family that lives in a predominantly
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people after they die. Hamlet sees people as having the same role in society after death. Death is inevitable and everyone eventually becomes equal. Having death as the final equalizer is saying that living is diving people because society taught to divide according to social class. In this quote‚ Hamlet is saying that after death‚ social status does not matter any more because the same worm that may feed off of a king is likely to feed off a beggar. This quote could have caused some controversy
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and help children when it is needed so they can learn and succeed in their education. She believes that the tender guidance is important for the learning experience. Within Powell’s speech he also wants what’s best for children and shows this by saying “the real answer begins with bringing a child to the school with structure in that child’s heart and soul to begin with.” To help prepare and provide structure to a child before they begin school‚ a parent can help bring them to things such as Head
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place. She is also very abrupt when Eunice is trying to make conversation with her only answering with “yes”‚ even for questions. She even then says “What I meant was that I’d like to be let alone”. She continues to be offensive when she sees Stella‚ saying that not even in her “worst dreams” could she imagine this place that her sister is living in. “Only Poe! Only Mr. Edgar Allan Poe! - could do it justice!” Poe’s best known fiction works are gothic; his most recurring themes dealing with questions
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any of the conspirators to hamper him. So when Antony‚ taking advantage of the opportunity to sway the crowd in "Friends‚ Romans‚ countrymen‚" calls Brutus "an honorable man" with increasingly scathing irony‚ what’s really ironic is that Antony is saying these words ironically when in fact they’re true. Even near the end of the play‚ this same noble‚ honorable nature in Brutus keeps him from seeing through Cassius’ motives. Your need for three reasons makes me strongly suspect that you’re writing
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but you are hurting her‚ or maybe even crippling her and make her socially inapt”. He continue by saying that she may not even want to take risk because of the things that people may say about the from the withdrawal state I may have cause. After making me feel guilty he used a wildlife analogy saying‚ “If a lion is hurt in battle then is he stronger”. Then I said another way I can prove how my saying is true is how you see all the people that commit suicide form cyber bullying and from people making
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On the contrary‚ “Untraveled Road” by Thousand Foot Krutch is not a good comparison to Bodie Thoene’s saying because its main idea is that taking the less traveled‚ and the less convenient path‚ will provide you with a much greater reward when you reach the end of the
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doing what the people wanted him to do” which makes us think that he was being a good general. These facts may not be true as it was take nearly a 100 years after the war so the facts can be muddled up and he wasn’t there to witness it‚ he’s just saying from his point of view‚ but because Haig was deluded that he was doing the right thing and that it would work made him think he would win the war‚ but it didn’t happen. For this reason‚ Haig was a donkey. Source F‚ is a comment from the two surviving
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when he says “If music be the food of love‚ play on; give me excess of it‚ that‚ surfeiting‚ the appetite may sicken‚ and so die” (1.1.1-3). He is saying music is like love because we overindulge on it in the moment until it sickens us and we don’t want to hear it anymore. He’s saying that if it is true that love is like this then bring it on. He’s saying that even though love is sickening he explain why he wishes that it continued cultivating when he says “That strain again! it had a dying fall:
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