That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to … - Thomas Huxley

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Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind

Thomas Huxley

That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the State of Art of an organized polity; in which, and by which, man may develop a worthy civilization

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Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.

Mean, Process, Progress, Survival

Action is the catalyst that creates accomplishments. It is the path that takes us from uncrafted hopes to realized dreams.

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Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

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We are prone to see what lies behind our eyes, rather than what apprears before them.

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Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at any rate, without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment. And science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Common Sense, Facts, Merciless, Science, Simply, Sound