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“Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.”

— Thomas Edison

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Wikiquote: Thomas Edison
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Context

The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison (1948), p. 110

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Edison, Thomas. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Thomas Edison. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison

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