Quotes: improvement
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Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
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Albert Pike
American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason
1809-1891
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
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Human happiness depends mainly upon the improvement of small opportunities.
Source: Sparks from the philosopher's stone (1882)
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All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
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Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
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Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.
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Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.
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Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.
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Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
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Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
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He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
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He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
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He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
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Bill Gates
American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist
1955-
Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.
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Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.
Source: Hints on Programming Language Design, December 1973
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