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"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century."
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"Progress means advancement in the path of upliftment " in the path of enlightenment " in the path of humanitarian glory."
"Never become a slave to tradition, learn to foresee new things."
"Change is a quintessential element of progress. Without change, progress is non-existent."
"Even a great philosophical idea when mixed with mysticism, turns into a dangerous weapon that becomes an impediment in the path of progress of developing communities."
"If your country is governed by the most stupid people, it is vital for you to continue going up personally while your nation and your country is going down because your country will inevitably collapse and it will be in need of people like you, people who managed to improve themselves while everything else was falling and deteriorating!"
"They say to never look back.But sometimes I do. It's gratifying to see how far I've come."
"It might be like you are still far from getting there, but remember, you are closer to it than you were yesterday. Every tiny step you take counts a lot!"
"The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to the edge of space that smoke means progress or, at least, people setting fire to things."
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"Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities."
"The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity."
"The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does."
"The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion."
"Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training."
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