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Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#away #came #change #lives #now

Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for. ↗

— Jane Smiley

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I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

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In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

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We - again, the, the, the, the bastardization and the demonization over the last few years of teachers and of unions and of collective bargaining, that is not the answer. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#answer #bargaining #collective #collective bargaining #few

We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales. ↗

— Yakov Smirnoff

#after #ever #ever after #fairy #fairy tales