Top 100 Quotes About Improvements

#1. God brings men [and women] into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse [teach and improve] them. [It is fair and appropriate to get excited about what those lessons and improvements to you will mean for the future happiness of you and those you care about.]

John H. Aughey

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#2. When I'm writing a score, I'm constantly looking for ways to improve on it, even when I think it's working well. I don't give up on things, and am always trying to make incremental improvements, which means I never finish writing a score early!

Geoff Zanelli

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#3. Making improvements to our background check system and cracking down on illegal gun trafficking are common-sense ways to prevent violence without punishing law abiding gun owners. We owe it to the American people to take real action to reduce gun violence in our communities.

Martin Heinrich

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#4. It is better that the law should be certain than that every judge should speculate upon improvements in it.

Robert Falcon Scott

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#5. Major improvements don't happen over night. Their are many moments inching towards improvement. The difference between those who make major improvements in their lives are the ones who embrace patience and wait through the darkness as long as it takes.

Matthew Donnelly

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#6. As a musician, we should always want to strive to be better, we can always make improvements. It's easy to get comfortable and it's easy to find your voice and your sound, but I always wanted to be better.

Eric Hernandez

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#7. Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts

Ernst Mayr

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#8. To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education.

Noah Webster

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#9. When we look ahead to 2018, we should expect big steps forward in science to come once again from changes in style rather than from marginal improvements in technology.

Freeman Dyson

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#10. the improvements we've made. Thank

Anonymous

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#11. But the improvements will happen faster and last longer if we can channel market forces, including innovation that's tailored to the needs of the poorest, to complement what governments and nonprofits do. We need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today.

Bill Gates

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#12. Sustained success is largely a matter of focusing regularly on the right things and making a lot of uncelebrated little improvements every day.

Theodore Levitt

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#13. We utilize energy from carbon, not because we are bad people, but because it is the affordable foundation on which the profound improvements in our standard of living have been achieved - our progress in health and welfare.

John Christy

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#14. The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals.

Edward Blake

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#15. When you are ready to make your first hires, look for people who understand your passion, want to add to your ideas and can envision ways to make improvements.

Richard Branson

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#16. We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium ... These have withdrawn capital from useful improvements and employments to nourish idleness ... These are evils more easily to be deplored than remedied.

Thomas Jefferson

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#17. The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.

E.D. Hirsch Jr.

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#18. If you focus on the flaws of others it takes away from the improvements that you may need to make.

Christofer Drew

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#19. When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in my thought or test it in my shop. I even note if it is out of balance.

Nikola Tesla

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#20. The news of any politician's death should be listed under 'Public Improvements.'

Frank Dane

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#21. I always have to come back to shows to take out the improvements actors have put in. Laughs are addictive, and sometimes they're good laughs, and sometimes they're bad laughs.

Scott Ellis

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#22. We are not supposed to run after miracles but we are supposed to run after self-perfection, self-growth, self - improvements.

Sunday Adelaja

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#23. This is known as the Pareto criterion and forms the basis for all judgements on social improvements in Neoclassical economics today.

Ha-Joon Chang

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#24. Whatever evils either reason or declamation have imputed to extensive empire, the power of Rome was attended with some beneficial consequences to mankind; and the same freedom of intercourse which extended the vices, diffused likewise the improvements of social life.

Edward Gibbon

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#25. Can we have a conversation about the substance? That's what I welcome. We're happy to have those conversations if there are places where people think there can be improvements. We want competition in the system, so let's talk about that.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

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#26. We feel the value is in the land, not the improvements.

Mike Simpson

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#27. nothing is so easy as to find fault with human institutions; nothing so difficult as to suggest adequate practical improvements.

Thomas Robert Malthus

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#28. It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country its truest and most durable celebrity.

James Madison

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#29. That said, we don't approach these improvements as only a surface aesthetic. The producers and we think that these men are helped with their inner needs when they pay attention to their externals.

Kyan Douglas

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#30. I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing ... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand.

Rick Wagoner

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#31. Nearly all the great improvements, discoveries, inventions, and achievements which have elevated and blessed humanity have been the triumphs of enthusiasm.

Orison Swett Marden

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#32. It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#33. If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

C.S. Lewis

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#34. The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life.

Theodor Svedberg

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#35. Our current use of time is not rational. There is therefore no point in seeking marginal improvements in how we spend our time. We need to go back to the drawing board and overturn all our assumptions about time.

Richard Koch

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#36. Our hope is that a new manager, along with roster improvements, will restore a winning culture.

Larry Beinfest

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#37. Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.

L. Ron Hubbard

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#38. We are making the following improvements to the library experience on your Kindle:

Anonymous

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#39. Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements.

Henry David Thoreau

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#40. If these examples are typical, then 75 to 95 percent of the productivity gains from many major new technologies were realized only after decades of improvements in the implementation.

James Bessen

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#41. On Tralfamadore, says Billy Pilgrim, there isn't much interest in Jesus Christ. The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind, he says, is Charles Darwin - who taught that those who die are meant to die, that corpses are improvements. So it goes.

Kurt Vonnegut

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#42. Measure your life by improvements rather than mistakes.

Robert A. Giacalone

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#43. Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?

Frank Herbert

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#44. If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort - provided you don't travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.

Prince Philip

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#45. Let's not make changes, let's make only improvements,

Wally Byam

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#46. Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.

Alan Greenspan

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#47. Science and the many benefits that science has produced have played a crucial part in our history and produced vast improvements to human welfare.

John Sulston

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#48. We pass bills authorizing improvements and grants. But when it comes time to pay for these programs, we'd rather put the country's money toward tax breaks for the wealthy than for police officers who are protecting our communities.

David Price

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#49. I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that they neglect all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them easy to themselves and useful to the world.

Joseph Addison

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#50. My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements, and operate the device entirely in my mind.

Nikola Tesla

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#51. Contrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements.

Karl Popper

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#52. He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.

Marisha Pessl

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#53. Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

Alexander Graham Bell

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#54. In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.

C.S. Lewis

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#55. We're halfway through another great time of the year. You should start to make little improvements to your lifestyle and thinking, your late. Start making a change now.

Auliq Ice

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#56. Remember, everything you are building today will be killed or iterated. The former is more likely than the latter. Great products are created by many incremental improvements.

Justin Kan

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#57. No matter how many improvements have been made, every process is still full of waste and rife with opportunity to improve.

Jeffrey K. Liker

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#58. What matters most is for the school, the district, and the state to be able to say that more students have reached "proficiency." This sort of fraud ignores the students' interests while promoting the interests of adults who take credit for nonexistent improvements.

Diane Ravitch

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#59. How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created?

Joseph Addison

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#60. I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.

Flavius Josephus

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#61. Health and happiness improvements can be made by making tiny little adjustments over time. They don't need to be massive big shifts especially if they are unlikely to stay, and you don't have to wait for the start of a new year, new month, new week or even new day to make the change.

Julie Creffield

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#62. I've always been into bodybuilding and keeping in shape, and I just challenge myself to see if I can continue to make improvements.

Kevin Nash

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#63. I've become fascinated by the idea that it's really achievable to make two or three small improvements in a week and by the end of the year, it's 150 improvements.

Darrell Hammond

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#64. Without criticism there would be no improvements.

Geoffroy Birtz

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#65. A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree ... Whereas when buildings are of durable materials, every new edifice is an actual and permanent acquisition to the state, adding to its value as well as to its ornament.

Thomas Jefferson

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#66. We can only achieve quantum improvements in our lives as we quit hacking at the leaves of attitude and behavior and get to work on the root, the paradigms from which our attitudes and behaviors flow.

Stephen R. Covey

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#67. Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

Benjamin Franklin

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#68. Far from being parasitic exploiters of the workers, most businessmen were innovators looking to outwit their rivals, by doing things better or cheaper, and in doing so they inevitably brought improvements to the living standards of consumers. Most

Matt Ridley

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#69. Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.

Casey Kasem

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#70. improvements and drive engineering excellence across

Anonymous

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#71. In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.

B.H. Liddell Hart

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#72. Strauss Group continues to strengthen its future growth engines, improve the company's competitive position, and increase market share, while continuing streamlining processes, improvements, and carrying out organizational adjustments in the company.

Ofra Strauss

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#73. We should begin by setting conscience free. When all men of all religions shall enjoy equal liberty, property, and an equal chance for honors and power we may expect that improvements will be made in the human character and the state of society.

John Adams

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#74. Some entrepreneurs have a bad habit of taking personal credit for all improvements and innovations at their startups. If you penalize or ignore employee initiatives, you can be certain that they won't be repeated, and motivation for more conventional performance will suffer.

Martin Zwilling

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#75. It is easy to predict that some of the discoveries of research directed towards Grand Challenges - but only the most unexpected ones, and at the most unexpected times - will be the basis of revolutionary improvements in the way that we exploit the power of our future computing devices.

Tony Hoare

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#76. It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency.

John Stewart Bell

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#77. Rather than setting property taxes on the value of land and improvements, I'd advocate a plan to set rates based on land values across the entire neighborhood.

Mark Noble

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#78. These brief weekly sessions helped to bring about valuable changes and health improvements in the participants. The motto was: we are all different and special, so we do not attempt to become like somebody else, but connect more deeply with our true selves.

Patrizia Collard

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#79. The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.

Lionel Messi

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#80. I made a pleasant discovery. You work hard at something eight hours a day, you get better. Not a lot better necessarily, but a little better, and that's just fine, because improving at golf, or anything else probably, is just a matter of making an endless series of tiny improvements.

James Patterson

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#81. Investors covet past improvements but also always believe pricing unimaginable future creativity and efficiency gains is Pollyannaish. And they're always wrong. Bet on it.

Kenneth Fisher

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#82. There isn't a plant or a business on earth that couldn't stand a few improvements-and be better for them. Someone is going to think of them. Why not beat the other fellow to it?

Roger Babson

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#83. Thinking consists in envisaging, realizing structural features and structural requirements; proceeding in accordance with, and determined by, these requirements; thereby changing the situation in the direction of structural improvements.

Max Wertheimer

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#84. Your life will never improve unless you start making daily improvements.

Lewis Howes

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#85. The most important impact on society and the world is the cell phone. Cell phones have actually been one of the primary drivers in productivity improvements.

Fabrice Grinda

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#86. I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the vain glory which can be acquired from ravaging it by the most uninterrupted career of conquests.

George Washington

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#87. General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen.

Michael Marmot

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#88. All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

Jared Diamond

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#89. Personal growth will cause a ripple effect as the growth in consciousness of enough people, one by one, can create general change, and lasting social improvements.

Bud Harris

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#90. One of the most important improvements in the No Child Left Behind Act for migrant students was the requirement for electronic transfer of migrant student records.

Ruben Hinojosa

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#91. What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute.

Andrew Jackson

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#92. Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expence of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with with those of the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that the greatest of all improvements.

Adam Smith

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#93. There are all kinds of wonderful new inventions that give you nothing as owners except the opportunity to spend a lot more money in a business that's still going to be lousy. The money still won't come to you. All of the advantages from great improvements are going to flow through to the customers.

Charlie Munger

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#94. Indeed, we often mark our progress in science by improvements in imaging.

Martin Chalfie

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#95. If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty.

David Korten

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#96. In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.

Dana Rohrabacher

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#97. Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results.

Robin S. Sharma

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#98. Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.

John P. Kotter

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#99. The English prison system is altogether mediaeval and outworn. In some of its details, the system has improved since they began to send the Suffragettes to Holloway. I may say that we, by our public denunciation of the system, have forced these slight improvements.

Emmeline Pankhurst

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#100. As with our colleges, so with a hundred 'modern improvements'; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance.

Henry David Thoreau

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