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"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."
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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."

"Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job."

"The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world."

"Consistency is good, but progress is better."

"How do we change the world is the wrong question to ask or try to answer. We are never stagnant just and neither is the world. It's changing every moment of every day. The real question is how do we develop it."

"Crawl in faith, and you will end up walking. Walk in faith, and you will end up jogging. Jog in faith, and you will end up running. Run in faith, and you will end up sprinting. Sprint in faith, and you will end up soaring."
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"Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all."

"The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity."

"Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life."

"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way."

"The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves."

"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."

"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands."

"In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists."
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