"Our ingress into the world Was naked and bare; Our progress through the world Is trouble and care."
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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."
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"Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river."
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"Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist."
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"Our customers want to give us more business and the key for us is to manage growing volumes properly."
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"Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough."
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"Never mistake motion for progress."
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"Age had taught him patience. Youth had taught me to get frustrated at the lack of progress."
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"Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture."
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"The United States says "We're complying. We're following the disarmament obligation. Look at the quantitative reductions that are taking place." But, since '96, there really hasn't been progress on specific commitments that have been made. Perhaps most disturbing is this: that the United States and France in particular, since 1996, have expanded the range of circumstances under which they might use - they say they might use - nuclear weapons."
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"The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life."
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"The best way to progress is the path of freedom."
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"The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history."
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"If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred."
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"Any society which is not improving is deteriorating, and the more so the closer and more familiar it is. Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually king of his company."
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"Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."
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"God isn't keeping a record of each time we fall, but He is excited about our progress, and we should be excited, too!"
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"When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there's a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we're going to see things through to the finish or quit."
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"If you get the U.N. to say we're going to solve the Syrian problem, if you get the Russians involved in a productive posture, you are making progress, but the Republican core says no strategy or failed strategy."
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"Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery."
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