Improvement Quotes
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Only as we give the children the truth about life can we expect any improvement in it.
Mabel Robinson
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Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act expires at the end of this year. Thus, we must act quickly to ensure our constituents continue to receive the services they enjoy.
Eliot Engel
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It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.
Adam Smith
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Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Look at the sunny side of everything & and make your optimisom come true. Think only of the best, work only for the best. Forget the mistakes of the past & press on the greater achievements of the future. Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to critize others. Live in the faith that the whole world is on your side as long as you are true to the best that is in you.
Christian D. Larson
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And the biggest improvement I see between 'Up in the Air' and 'Juno' and 'Thank You for Smoking' is that 'Up in the Air' deals with the complicated human stuff in a way that my other films have not. It's a more articulated film, and because of that, I'm most proud of it.
Jason Reitman
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I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.
Pierre Boulez
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Practice without improvement is meaningless.
Chuck Knox
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He brings enthusiasm and freshness. Physically there's been a big improvement in the last month or so. What he needs now is quality time on the pitch.
Ian Foster
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We think we can contribute something toward the improvement of public education in our country.
Charles Best
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I enjoy acting. It's not that I begin to think I'm getting better. I now fully know that I've made no improvement whatsoever since I was 20. I can live with it.
John Rhys-Davies
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All work undertaken should be useful - not just for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense that it affords permanent improvement in living conditions or that it creates future new wealth for the Nation.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Without repentance, there is no real progress or improvement in life. Pretending there is no sin does not lessen its burden and pain. Suffering for sin does not by itself change anything for the better. Only repentance leads to the sunlit uplands ofa better life.
D. Todd Christofferson
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Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to the dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions of people.
Eli Broad
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It is increasingly necessary to impress the fact that there are two distinct lines in the improvement of any race: the environment which brings individuals up to their best possibilities; the other, ten thousand times more important and effective, selection of the best individuals through a series of generations.
Luther Burbank
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Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
Andrew Carnegie
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It is painful to think about ruthlessness as an engine of improvement.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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.
Adolf Loos
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My commitment to the players was to try to keep this whole group together and hopefully improve and step up again next year.
Joe Gibbs
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In boxing, they say it's the punch you don't see coming that knocks you out. In the wider world, the reality we ignore or deny is the one that weakens our most impassioned efforts toward improvement.
Katherine Dunn
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And, of course, method is very important as is a high-quality specialist (trainer) working with you to keep you going in the right direction for your improvement and to help create results.
Sergei Bubka
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Servants are not allowed to ask questions. They are only supposed to follow orders. That attitude has to change. But in order for it to change, there has to be radical improvement in the quality of the intelligence produced by the Mexican government.
Adolfo Aguilar Zinser
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For self-driving cars in particular, there are lots of dimensions of this technology beyond just impact on labour. There is a massive potential improvement in public health.
Karl Iagnemma