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"With experience comes improvement."

"The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs."

"Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today."

"When does the external work improve? It improves when inner peace is attained."

"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better."

"Since a month, two months ago, you know, I've started hitting the ball well. I'm playing some really good tennis. That really helps. I sort of have to motivate myself to get pumped up. It really helps my game a lot."

"Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941."

"But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best."
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"Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates."

"The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being."

"Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them."

"If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party."

"There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return."

"Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated."

"Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day."
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