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"After I received my blue belt, I soon recognized that the belts were simply an external representation of an inner experience, and that they mattered little compared to the person I was becoming."
"Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history."
"The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to the edge of space that smoke means progress or, at least, people setting fire to things."
"And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction."
"If you take it step by step, you shall least miss a step!"
"You may not have finished today but the work you did got you closer than if you would have done nothing."
"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."
"It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached."
Explore more quotes by Frank Moore Colby
"Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise."
"Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them."
"I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at."
"Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?"
"If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage."
"We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist."
"We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way."
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