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There are now no more horizons. And with the dissolution of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not only of peoples but also of their mythologies. It is as when dividing panels are withdrawn from between chambers of very hot and very cold airs: there is a rush of these forces together
Joseph Campbell
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
Susan B. Anthony
Commit to CANI! -- Constant And Never-ending Improvement
Anthony Robbins
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
Adlai Stevenson
The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.
Charles A. Lindbergh
You can't say that civilization don't advance... for in every war they kill you a new way.
Will Rogers
If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England would surpass all their wildest dreams, that the annual revenue would equal the principal of that debt which they considered an intolerable burden, that for one man of
Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Edin
Yet sometimes glimpses on my sight,Through present wrong the eternal right;And, step by step, since time began,I see the steady gain of man...
John Greenleaf Whittier
Nobility doesn't lie in surpassing the other man, but in surpassing the previous self.
Hindu Spiritual
Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.
Oscar Wilde
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
Robert M. Pirsig
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
Victor Hugo
You were born to journey in the direction of your purpose. Anything that halts your progress is contrary to your design.
Steve Maraboli
When you do what you love, the seemingly impossible becomes simply challenging, the laborious becomes purposeful resistance, the difficult loses its edge and is trampled by your progress.
Doubt can only be removed by action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
Walter Bagehot
Never confuse movement with action.
Ernest Hemingway
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to sharpen.
Eden Phillpotts, A Shadow Passes
Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.
Thaddeus Golas
