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Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shout...

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And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs.

I don't know where anyone ever got the idea that technology, in and of itself, was a savior. Like al...

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The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopu...

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If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to ...

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Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human na...

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I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American Presid...

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If America and the Western world continue in their state of unconscious hopelessness, lack of faith ...

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Never confuse movement with action.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his li...

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Woe to him who becomes useless to human progress!

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agita...

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The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to inc...

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Yes, a war is inevitable. Firstly, there's you fellows who can't be trusted. And then there's the mu...

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It is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize human...

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Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with ...

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Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general ...

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To reach a port we must set sail –Sail, not tie at anchorSail, not drift.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is wh...

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The initial animosity between divergent approaches can be overcome if we realize that each has somet...

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Frans de WaalAre We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other p...

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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate...

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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

Every past is worth condemning.

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Friedrich NietzscheOn the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes vir...

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Countless hours of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new...

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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world?

There was something very American about this ability to dwell constantly in the realm of the improva...

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Geoff DyerAnother Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the com...

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A great devotee of the gospel of getting on.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the...

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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anythin...

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[Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

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George Bernard ShawAdvice to a Young Critic

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anythi...

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A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all ...

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the...

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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutio...

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The main secret of his progress, the secret of all wisdom, was, that with him action was the beginni...

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It is not where one is, but in what direction he is going.

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one si...

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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men...

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Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

Progress far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the pas...

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For those that think men make progress collectively, I warn you, history teaches: You couldn’t be mo...

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Thanks is part to our education system, we tend to think that we're smarter than the stupid guys in ...

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My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan...

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No matter the circumstances, I encourage you to go forward with faith and prayer, calling on the Lor...

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Science is the first expression of punk, because it doesn't advance without challenging authority. I...

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The really great visual experience today is to fly over a huge city and look down into the night. It...

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It is good to stop by the track for a space, put aside the knapsack, wipe the brows, and talk a litt...

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After all, the sanitation and the agriculture of today are still in the rudimentary stage. The scien...

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We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them...

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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and great...

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H. L. MenckenThe Artist: A Drama Without Words

What we call progress is the exchange of one Nuisance for another Nuisance.

I realized that the wonder is not that conditions are so bad, but that humanity has advanced so far ...

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A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be d...

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The century on which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset D...

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I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries o...

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So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortune...

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of int...

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of int...

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of int...

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of int...

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Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of...

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Now, I have always believed that women are not victims; we are agents of change, we are drivers of p...

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However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should the...

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It became clear to me that simply caring is not enough. To drive real progress, you have to change b...

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To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

Se ciascuno pensa solo a se stesso e non si fida che di se stesso, come volete che ci sia coraggio c...

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These clever, amoral, inventive, destructive men, single-minded, selfish, emotionally cool, coolly a...

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An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot ...

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Immanuel KantAn Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot ...

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Immanuel KantAn Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

I wouldn't want [the people of Baleyworld] to live that long as a general thing. The pace of histori...

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There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man’s mastery over the environment. Not...

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Our market-intensive societies measure material progress by the increase in the volume and variety o...

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Ivan IllichThe Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

So said Hair-Face, and they killed him, because, they said, he was a wild man and wanted to go back ...

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Jack LondonTo Build a Fire and Other Stories

Progress is the exploration of our own error. Evolution is a consolidation of what have always begun...

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Jacob BronowskiThe Origins of Knowledge and Imagination

A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individu...

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Flight is the only true sensation that men have achieved in modern history.

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear...

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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man h...

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Jane AddamsTwenty Years at Hull House

At the fourth, the fractal (or viral, or radiant) stage of value, there is no point of reference at ...

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Jean BaudrillardThe Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena