"Progress was all right. Only it went on too long."

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"Mark the spirit of invention everywhere, thy rapid patents, Thy continual workshops, foundries, risen or rising, See, from their chimneys how the tall flame-fires stream."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Progress, Invention, Industry, Work

"True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Progress, Conscience, Invention, Mind

"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."

Chris Matakas, Australian Motivational Speaker

Progress, Experience, Mastery, Self

"Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

Progress, Medicine, Agriculture, Life

"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."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Progress, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Today

"And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Progress, Mistake, Correction, Wisdom

"If you take it step by step, you shall least miss a step!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Progress, Consistency, Movement, Success

"And the people of Ankh-Morpork are so thirsty for novelty that the whole city is, you might say, hurrying the future along for the sheer joy of watching its progress."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Progress, Future, Happiness, Truth, Wisdom

"Consistency is good, but progress is better."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Progress, Consistency, Improvement, Change

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

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Progress, Process, Productivity, Work

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"The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."

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"It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption."

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"I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere."

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"Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost."

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"Mark the spirit of invention everywhere, thy rapid patents, Thy continual workshops, foundries, risen or rising, See, from their chimneys how the tall flame-fires stream."

"True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis."

"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!"

"And the people of Ankh-Morpork are so thirsty for novelty that the whole city is, you might say, hurrying the future along for the sheer joy of watching its progress."

"Consistency is good, but progress is better."

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

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"One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough."

"Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead."

"Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man."

"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."

"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time."

"Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge."

"The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."

"It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption."

"I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere."

"Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost."