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# Einstein was four years old before he could speak and seven before he could read.
# Isaac Newton did poorly in grade school.
# When Thomas Edison was a boy, his teachers told him he was too stupid to learn anything.
# F.W.Woolworth got a job in a dry goods store when he was 21. But his employers would not let him wait on a customer because he "Didn't have enough sense."
# A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because he had "No good ideas"
# Caruso's music teacher told him "You can't sing, you have no voice at all."
# Leo Tolstoy flunked out of college.
# Verner Von Braun flunked 9th grade algebra.
# Admiral Richard E. Byrd had been retired from the navy, as, "Unfit for service" Until he flew over both poles.
# Louis Pasteur was rated as mediocre in chemistry when he attended the Royal College
# Abraham Lincoln entered The Black Hawk War as a captain and came out a private
# Fred Waring was once rejected from high school chorus.
# Winston Churchill failed the sixth grad

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