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"Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity."
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"When you don't come closer to the goal and don't make everyday steps for achieving it, we will not get the results we inwardly set out to attain."
"It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached."
"If you take it step by step, you shall least miss a step!"
"Your daily product determines how far you go."
"There comes some special times that you got to keep "impossibility thinkers" behind you and walk with those are prepared to go forward with you because that is the only option to keep you going!"
"The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced."
"In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down."
"The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."
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"I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea."
"It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch."
"But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born."
"I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist."
"Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war."
"In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds."
"We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so."
"Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials."
"I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist."
"We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned."
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