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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration

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  1. Great accomplishments depend not so much on ingenuity as on hard work. This is a saying of the American inventor Thomas Edison.

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Adapt Thomas Edison's Edison's belief that “genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration”, and make a plan.

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