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Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is visible in the external aspect of the place.

You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.