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“Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this: the People will assuredly do the rest.”

“The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is no church of Christ; and any mutual improvement club which thinks that by reading its Shakspearo, or by acting its pretty tableaux, or by having. this or that little reading from Spenser and from Chaucer, it is going to lift itself up into any higher order of culture or life, is wholly mistaken, unless as an essential part of its duty, it goes out into the world, finds those that are falling down, and lifts them up to the majesty of freemen, who are sons of God.”

“The bureaucrat is not free to aim at improvement. He is bound to obey rules and regulations established by a superior body. He has no right to embark upon innovations if his superiors do not approve of them. His duty and his virtue is to be obedient.”

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Book:Bureaucracy

Source: Bureaucracy

“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.”

Should Action Past Particular Duty Soldier Improvement Endeavor Spheres

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.”

Inspirational Self Progress Sacrifice Duty Development Higher Self Improvement Improvement Self Development Self Sacrifice Personal Sacrifice

Book:The Woman's Bible

Source: The Woman's Bible

“Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.”

Way Real Doubt Duty Please Sacred Improvement Real Life

Book:The use of lateral thinking

Source: The use of lateral thinking

“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for our own improvement, and at the same time share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.”

Thinking World Ends Science Time Humanity Individual Work Responsibility Share Particular Duty Aids Improvement Improving Marie

Author:Marie Curie