Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

- Thomas Edison

Random Fact

History credits Thomas Edison with the invention of the Phonograph among other inventions still used today but most people don’t know he said the words to “Mary had a little lamb” as the first recorded voice on the phonograph.

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