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“I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to keep friends and family updated on my progress.”

Mother Father My Own Progress Hospitals Journal Family And Friends Newsletters

Author:Brent Runyon

“Ann Sjoerdsma has successfully blended the fascinating story of her illustrious father's scientific achievements [in wide-ranging] drug research, with an enjoyable historic account of the astounding progress of biomedical science during the second half of the 20th century.”

Stories Father Half Progress Century Drug Achievement Research Accounts Wide Fascinating 20th Century Historic Enjoyable Biomedical

Author:Arvid Carlsson

“My father told me never to take my foot off a ladder to kick at someone who was kicking at me. When I did that, I would no longer be climbing. While they are kicking, my father told me, I should keep stepping. They can kick only one time. If I continued to climb, they would be left behind. In trying to hurt me, to impede my progress, they would get left behind because they allowed themselves to get sidetracked from their agenda.”

Ifs Inspirational Should Trying Would Be Father Left Hurt Behinds Progress Feet Kicks Climbs Agendas Climbing One Time Ladders Left Behind Hurt Me Kicking

Author:Steve Harvey

“In every department of life--in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments and in its spiritual connections--we thank God that we are not like our fathers.”

Spiritual Father Belief Pleasure Progress Materials Theory Development Connections Department Thank God Our Father Spiritual Connection

Author:James Anthony Froude

“Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep and to rise refreshed for new advancement. What the father has made, the son can make and enjoy; but has also work of his own appointed him. Thus all things wax and roll onwards: arts, establishments, opinions, nothing is ever completed, but ever completing.”

Art Made Father Enjoy Sleep Opinion Progress Generations Mankind Son Birth All Things Establishment Bells Advancement Completing

Book:Sartor Resartus: The Historian

Source: Sartor Resartus: The Historian

“Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.”

Mother Father Progress Cost Compensation

Book:PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

“My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.”

Important Father Party Leader Progress Politician Democratic Democratic Party

Author:Zaha Hadid

“A gentleman of Typee can bring up a numerous family of children and give them all a highly respectable cannibal education, with infinitely less toil and anxiety than he expends in the simple process of striking a light; whilst a poor European artisan, who through the instrumentality of a lucifer performs the same operation in one second, is put to his wits' end to provide for his starving offspring that food which the children of a Polynesian father, without troubling their parent, pluck from the branches of every tree around them.”

Source: Typee: A Romance of the South Seas (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)

“The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much to retard progress.We fill the world with the children of 20th century A.D. fathers and 20th century B.C. mothers.”

World Children Done Facts Home Mother Father Progress Century 20th Century Retard

Author:Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine ordinance of government, in every stage of the ascent, was adjustable on principles of common reason to the actual condition of a people, and always had for its objects, in the benevolent councils of the divine wisdom, the happiness, the expansion, the security, the elevation of society, and the redemption of man. They sought in vain for any title of authority of man over man, except of superior capacity and higher morality.”