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"The step that we are on is only a step to the next place, and no step regardless of how massive is ever a destination."

"I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense."

"Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long."

"A nation's progress is a testament to its unity, and the discipline of its people shapes the path to prosperity."

"There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!"

"On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future."

"I've, we have in this state, like many other states, we're experiencing an enormous budget deficit that we're trying to grapple with. But we will have progress despite the deficits."
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"You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend."

"I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow."

"Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave."

"If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept."

"Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled."

"Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself."

"To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet."

"Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates."

"If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short."
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