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Progress Quotes
"Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce."
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"The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes."
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"Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things."
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"Being "nowhere" is a step towards getting somewhere.Today, if you feel like you are nowhere, you are in a powerful position to choose the "somewhere" you want to go."
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"We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace."
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"Time waits for no man, but progress waits for man to inact it."
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"You see continuous movement is the important thing here. Those who remain in one position and then lie to themselves about their progress are the ones in real trouble."
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"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."
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"What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people's-visions-for-the-future."
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"There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest."
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"If we were to suppose that mankind never can or will be in a better condition, it seems impossible to justify by any kind of theodicy the mere fact that such a race of corrupt beings could have been created on earth at all."
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"The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world."
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"People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end and that behind all the joyous 'onward and upward' slogans lurks the lascivious voice of death urging us to make haste."
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"It is a mistake to think that moving fast is the same as actually going somewhere."
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"Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history."
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"Remember, you are not aspiring for perfection, Bombshell. You are aspiring for progress, one step at a time."
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"Adaptability enforces creativity, and creativity is adaptability."
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"The primitive tribes permitted far less individual freedom than does modern society. Ancient wars were committed with far less moral justification than modern ones. A technology that produces debris can find, and is finding, ways of disposing of it without ecological upset. And the schoolbook pictures of primitive man sometimes omit some of the detractions of his primitive life - the pain, the disease, famine, the hard labor needed just to stay alive. From that agony of bare existence to modern life can be soberly described only as upward progress, and the sole agent for this progress is quite clearly reason itself."
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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."
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"The best way to achieve lasting change in your life is to act slowly and persistently. Do not make radical changes in your life that you have not yet learned to maintain. Act with deliberate care and decisiveness and allow yourself to make the changes you need in your life."
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"A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion."
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"The step that we are on is only a step to the next place, and no step regardless of how massive is ever a destination."
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"In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down."
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"Small steps may appear unimpressive, but don't be deceived. They are the means by which perspectives are subtly altered, mountains are gradually scaled, and lives are drastically changed."
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"Any technological advance can be dangerous. Fire was dangerous from the start, and so (even more so) was speech - and both are still dangerous to this day - but human beings would not be human without them."
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"True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis."
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"After I received my blue belt, I soon recognized that the belts were simply an external representation of an inner experience, and that they mattered little compared to the person I was becoming."
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"This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the printing press."
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"Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness."
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"In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards."
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"If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors."
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"I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy."
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"I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking."
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"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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"Progress is in simplification, which often follows complexity."
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