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Improved Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- The improved means to the unimproved end.
- Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
- While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it…
- Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an…
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- As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — Diane Ackerman
- Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much. — Wade Boggs
- I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl out. Through… — Alton Brown
- The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. — Luther Burbank
- Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent… — Giacomo Casanova
- Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for… — Harlan Coben
- As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men… — Frederick William Robertson
- What gets measured gets improved. — Robin Sharma
- The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering… — Benjamin Franklin
- A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is… — Charles Ferguson
- Little opportunities should be improved. — Francois Fenelon