It requires a better type of mind to seek out and to support or to create the new than to follow the worn paths of accepted success. — John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

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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. ― George Bernard Shaw

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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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Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent. - Terry Pratchett

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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. — Arnold Bennett

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The only thing standing between you and outrageous success is continuous progress. — Dan Waldschmidt

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Things are always different than what they might be. If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything. — Henry James

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People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing -- that's why we recommend it daily. - Zig Ziglar

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My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'

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There are still forces in America that want to divide us along racial lines, religious lines, sex, class. But we've come too far; we've made too much progress to stop or to pull back. We must go forward. And I believe we will get there. - John Lewis

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