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"Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies."
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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!"

"A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits."

"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."
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"I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else."


"Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity."


"I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk."


"A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad."


"As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country."
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