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"Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass."
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"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!"

"Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs."

"In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected."

"You may not have finished today but the work you did got you closer than if you would have done nothing."

"A nation's progress is a testament to its unity, and the discipline of its people shapes the path to prosperity."
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"Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates."

"Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave."

"Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled."

"It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is."

"You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend."

"Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses."

"Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail."

"Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction."

"This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy."
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