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  • Calvin Coolidge The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Billy Beane The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Joseph Joubert The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Samuel Butler The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Albert Camus The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Ansel Adams The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Owen Davies The pace of progress will accelerate so that even engineers and technical managers will find it necessary to recycle back through school after no more than ten years. In particular fast-moving technologies skills will become obsolete every five years or so.
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  • Bruce Dern The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had.
    Bruce Dern
    American actor (1936 - )
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  • Confucius The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Carlisle Floyd The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Barry Cornwall The progress from infancy to boyhood is imperceptible. In that long dawn of the mind we take but little heed. The years pass by us, one by one, little distinguishable from each other. But when the intellectual sun of our life is risen, we take due note of joy and sorrow.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • T. S. Eliot The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Richard Cobden The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.
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  • Arthur Koestler The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Joseph R. Sizoo The progress of the world is the history of men who would not permit defeat to speak the final word.
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