Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes on Goals
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When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
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When everything about a people is for the time growing weak and ineffective, it begins to talk about efficiency. So it is that when a man's body is a wreck he begins, for the first time, to talk about health. Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.
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As enunciated today, 'progress' is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.