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Technological progress
has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Progress is the
exchange of one nuisance for another.
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Innovation
requires bypassing-not building upon-existing expertise.
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If you think big
enough, you'll never have to do it.
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Growth is directly
proportion to promises made;
profit is inversely proportion to promises kept.
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We're making progress.
Things are getting worse at a slower rate.
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Just because everything
is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
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Almost everything is
more popular than it used to be.
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Ideas endure and
prosper in inverse proportion to their soundness and validity.
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Civilization advances
by extending the number of important operations that we can perform
without thinking about them.
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The reasonable man
adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to
adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the
unreasonable man.
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Do a little more each
day than everyone expects and soon everyone will expect more.
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All children are future
ex-idealists.
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If you are costing,
you're going downhill.
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For every action, there
is an equal and opposite criticism.
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Living in the past has
one thing in it's favour - it's cheaper.
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The closest you can get
to your youth is to start repeating your fallies.
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An adult is a
deteriorated child.
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You can only be young
once, but you can be immature forever.
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If I had to live my
life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
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Millions long for
immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
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Nostalgia is the
realization that things weren't as unbearable as they seemed at that
time.
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How feeble are man's
efforts against the unyielding forces of Nature-until the struggle is
recounted for the grandchildren.
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If you abstain from
drinking, smoking and Carousing, you may not live longer-but it will
feel longer.
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Don't worry about
avoiding temptation-as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
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Virtue is insufficient
temptation.
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Traditions are
solutions for which we have forgotten the problem.
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There is no heavier
burden than a great potential.