"An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come."

Progress, Culture, History, Society

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"An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come."

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"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"Is it not time to cry that the blind shall see, the deaf hear, the lame walk? But that which fanaticism formerly promised to its elect, science now accomplishes for all men."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"When you don't come closer to the goal and don't make everyday steps for achieving it, we will not get the results we inwardly set out to attain."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"How do we change the world is the wrong question to ask or try to answer. We are never stagnant just and neither is the world. It's changing every moment of every day. The real question is how do we develop it."

Matthew Donnelly, American Author

Progress, Development, Change, Responsibility

"Crawl in faith, and you will end up walking. Walk in faith, and you will end up jogging. Jog in faith, and you will end up running. Run in faith, and you will end up sprinting. Sprint in faith, and you will end up soaring."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Nothing happens until something moves."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Progress, Movement, Change, Initiative, Action

"There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!"

Edgar Cayce, American Celebrity

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"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

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"In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected."

Bruno Rossi, Italian Scientist

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"As a historical novelist, there are few jobs more retrospective."

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"The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum."

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