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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?
All things journey: sun and moon,
Morning, noon, and afternoon,
Night and all her stars;
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All things journey: sun and moon,
Morning, noon, and afternoon,
Night and all her stars;
'Twixt the east and western bars
Round they journey,
Come and go!
We go with them!
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.
Westward the star of empire takes its way.
Westward the star of empire takes its way.
Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like
clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and read more
Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like
clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set
to true time.
Westward the course of empire takes its way;
The four first Acts already past,
A fifth shall read more
Westward the course of empire takes its way;
The four first Acts already past,
A fifth shall close the Drama with the day;
Time's noblest offspring is the last.
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.
There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.
There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral
with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution read more
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral
with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and
dissolution.
