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I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.
-Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)
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Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.
-Claude Levi-Strauss
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He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
-G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
-Abraham Lincoln
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I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
-Abraham Lincoln
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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
-Abraham Lincoln
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The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.
-Charles A. Lindbergh
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We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Time advances: facts accumulate; doubts arise. Faint glimpses of truth begin to appear, and shine more and more unto the perfect day. The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn. They are bright, while the level below is still in darkness. But soon the light, which at first illuminated only the loftiest eminences, descends on the plain, and penetrates to the deepest valley. First come hints, then fragments of systems, then defective systems, then complete and harmonious systems. The sound opinion, held for a time by one bold speculator, becomes the opinion of a small minority, of a strong minority, of a majority of mankind. Thus, the great progress goes on.
-Thomas Babington Macaulay
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If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England would surpass all their wildest dreams, that the annual revenue would equal the principal of that debt which they considered an intolerable burden, that for one man of
-Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Edinburgh Review", 1830
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Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced.... Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year
-Archibald MacLeish, "Saturday Review (New York)", July 9, 1968
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Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!
-Og Mandino
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By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?
-Jackie Mason
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Progress is a tide. If we stand still we will surely be drowned. To stay on the crest, we have to keep moving.
-Harold Mayfield
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Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.
-Henry Miller
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All progress occurs because people dare to be different.
-Harry Millner
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Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge... and the longest life is too short.
-Mary Wortley Montagu
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Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
-Lewis Mumford
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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
-Ogden Nash
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When you are through improving yourself, you are out of the game. You learn until your last breath.
-Richard A. Nelson
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Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
-George Orwell
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The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.
-John Ousterhout
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Progress is mediation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.
-Pantanjali
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It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.
-H. Ross Perot
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Books about Progress
