Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

- 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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