Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

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But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best. ― Paulo Coelho

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A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks. — Thurgood Marshall

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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress. -Barack Obama

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Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.

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He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. ― George Bernard Shaw

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Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.

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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. - William Shakespeare

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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. - George Bernard Shaw

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