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"In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living."
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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."
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"It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while."
"I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection."
"If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed."
"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul."
"Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think."
"Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature."
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