Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002

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The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration


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

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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