Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Trust one who has gone through it.

Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Never discourage anyone… who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

—Samuel Butler

I was to learn later that in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

—Russell Baker

The advancement of the arts from year to year taxes our credulity, and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

—George Bernard Shaw

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