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• Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

  Christopher Lasch

  Alternatives, Ruins, Arise

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• Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

  Christopher Lasch

  Heart, Upgrading, Taste

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics”, p.520, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Cutting, Loss, Humanity

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1848). “The popular works of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, tr., with a memoir of the author by W. Smith”, p.218

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• The never-ending task of self improvement.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Success, Self

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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.

  Ernest Dimnet

  America, Twelve, Rooms

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• And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.

  Margaret Spellings

  Respect, Children, School

  "Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings". "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. April 7, 2005.

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• Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.

  David Brainerd

  Time, Be Careful, Careful

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.124

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• The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.

  John Lothrop Motley

  Made, Crusades, Serfs

  John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.18

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• Practice without improvement is meaningless.

  Chuck Knox

  Wrestling, Practice, Meaningless

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• To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.

  Fred Perry

  Sports, Athlete, Leader

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• A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.65, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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• A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Wisdom, Humility

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Business is always a struggle. There are always obstacles and competitors. There is never an open road, except the wide road that leads to failure. Every great success has always been achieved by fight. Every winner has scars.The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will-power to develop themselves. So choose to be among the few today.

  Chris Kirubi

  Moving On, Success, Perseverance

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• You can't just be you. You have to double yourself. You have to read books on subjects you know nothing about. You have to travel to places you never thought of traveling. You have to meet every kind of person and endlessly stretch what you know.

  Mary Wells Lawrence

  Motivational, Being Yourself, Travel

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• If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

  Brian Tracy

  Life, Motivational, Inspiration

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from May 04, 2014

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• He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Self Improvement, Blunt, Ends

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook L 70, 1799.

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• The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Trust No One, Men

  Ulysses S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.2392, Modern Library

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• The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.

  John Locke

  Education, Knowledge, Two

  "The works of John Locke. To which is added the life of the author and a collection of several of his pieces, publ. by mr. Desmaizeaux".

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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.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Perseverance, Missing, Self Improvement

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• What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.

  William Hurt

  Frustrating

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• The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself.

  Brian Tracy

  Positive, Teaching, Learning

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2016

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• Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.

  Jim Rohn

  Business, Mean, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 27, 2017

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• Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees

  J. Willard Marriott

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it.

  Aron Ralston

  Inspirational, Adversity, Greatness

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