| "I IMPROVE on misquotation." »Cary Grant |
| "Don't talk unless you can IMPROVE the silence." »Jorge Luis Borges |
| "Don't speak unless you can IMPROVE on the silence." »Danish proverb |
| "In attempts to IMPROVE your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it." »Francis Thompson |
| "It is not observed in history that families IMPROVE with time." »George William Curtis |
| "We IMPROVE ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win." »Edward Gibbon |
| "The people I distrust most are those who want to IMPROVE our lives but have only one course of action." »Frank Herbert |
| "In order to IMPROVE the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate." »Rene Descartes |
| "I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to IMPROVE it is largely a waste of time." »H.L. Mencken |
| "Men are like wine some turn to vinegar, but the best IMPROVE with age." »Pope John XXIII |
| "Our lives IMPROVE only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves." »Walter Anderson |
| "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to IMPROVE the world." »Anne Frank |
| "He enjoys true leisure who has time to IMPROVE his soul's estate." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to IMPROVE your work." »Bette Davis |
| "For a list of all the ways technology has failed to IMPROVE the quality of life, please press three." »Alice Kahn |
| "The job of buildings is to IMPROVE human relations architecture must ease them, not make them worse." »Ralph Erskine |
| "Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to IMPROVE your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match." »Isaac Asimov |
| "Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. IMPROVE them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather to IMPROVE our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men." »Bill Beattie |
| "You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, IMPROVE yourself." »John Ruskin |
| "Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely IMPROVE the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, IMPROVE the solutions, and pass them on." »Richard Feynman |
| "Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will IMPROVE. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened." »Stanley Walker |
| "Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines IMPROVE with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place." »Abigail Van Buren |
| "Most tax revisions didn't IMPROVE the system, they made it more like Washington itself complicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisers." »Ronald Reagan |
| "There are two messages from theory of Karma. Our condition in this life is determined by our deeds in previous life. We must do good in this life to IMPROVE our conditions in next life." »B. J. Gupta |
| "Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to IMPROVE the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." »Robert Francis Kennedy |
| "No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to IMPROVE in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them." »Alan B. Watts |
| "Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not IMPROVE and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client." »William Seward Burroughs |
| "Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to IMPROVE and no direction is set for possible IMPROVEment and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience." »George Santayana |
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