"In short, we lose the freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve."
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"Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life."
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"A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness."
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"For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at."
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"In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s."
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"All improvement in your life begins with an improvement in your mental pictures."
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"I can once more carry on a conversation with myself, and don't stare so into complete emptiness. Only in this way is there any possibility of improvement for me."
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"Practice only makes for improvement."
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"Here's other quotes and sayings you can motivate yourself with. Practice only makes for improvement."
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"Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement."
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"If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention"
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"Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status."
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"...everything in psychosocial evolution which can properly be called advance, or progress, or improvement, is due directionaly to the increase or improvement of knowledge."
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"In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements."
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"There is always room for improvements! My strength comes from above!"
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"...the change was adjustment without improvement."
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"It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures."
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"Fiction is an improvement on life"
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"Yes, the rise in corporate power had roots in the gearing up for the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln was a Whig, a supporter of government aid to expanding industry - to "internal improvements" that supported the growth of business. He was an early capitalist, not one who wanted to preserve some rural paradise."
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"If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement."
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