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  • Carlos Slim Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.
    Carlos Slim
    Mexican business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1940 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • George Orwell Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Smiles Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Brent Scowcroft Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Abraham Pais Progress leads to confusion leads to progress and on and on without respite. Every one of the many major advances - created sooner or later, more often sooner, new problems. These confusions, never twice the same, are not to be deplored. Rather, those who participate experience them as a privilege.
    Source: Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988)
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Karl Kraus Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Don Marquis prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • George Orwell Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Barbara Kruger Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo Promise a lot and give even more.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • A. A. Milne Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Jonathan Swift Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Hannah Arendt Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Charles Simmons Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Elizabeth Drew Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others.
    Elizabeth Drew
    American political journalist and author (1935 - )
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  • Jean Anouilh Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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