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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
 Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. 
Are you going sixty miles an read more 
 Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. 
Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty 
miles an hour and you're just sitting still? 
 New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth;
 They must upward still and onward, who would keep read more 
 New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth;
 They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of 
truth. 
 Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun,
 But dream of him, and guess where he may be,
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 Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun,
 But dream of him, and guess where he may be,
  And do the best to climb, and get to him. 
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?
 To look up and not down,
 To look forward and not back,
  To look out and not read more 
 To look up and not down,
 To look forward and not back,
  To look out and not in--and
   To lend a hand. 
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.