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If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Eugene V Debs |

There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Charles Caleb Colton |

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Clarence Day |

His life was a sort of dream, as are most lives with the mainspring left out.

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