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Proverb
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| "A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of
motion." | |
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Richard E. Byrd
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| "All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have
first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has
root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end. though you can render
no reason." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of
every organism to live beyond its income." | |
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Samuel Butler, the Younger
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| "All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance." | |
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Edward Gibbon
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| "Certainly it is true that the constant striving for something
better?the price of progress?adds to the total of human happiness. It
stimulates industry by creating new wants. It multiplies opportunities for
the employment of brain and brawn. And it bridges the gaps between peaks of
prosperity and helps take up the slack during times of reaction." | |
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John N. Willys
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| "Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving,
but does not make any progress." | |
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Alfred Armand Montapert
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| "Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic
ideas." | |
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Alfred North Whitehead
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| "Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress." | |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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| "I will go anywhere, as long as it be forward." | |
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David Livingstone
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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." | |
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Eugene Victor Debs
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| "In a progressive country change is constant; ... change ... is
inevitable." | |
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Benjamin Disraeli
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| "It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of
altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress
is accomplished by the man who does things." | |
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Theodore Roosevelt
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| "It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone ? that
even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man of,
say, the Eighteenth Century, and is far more civilized. This assumption is
quite erroneous.... The great masses of men, even in this inspired
republic, are precisely where the mob was at the dawn of history. They are
ignorant, they are dishonest, they are cowardly, they are ignoble. They
know little if anything that is worth knowing, and there is not the
slightest sign of a natural desire among them to increase their
knowledge." | |
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Henry Louis Mencken
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| "Life does not stand still. Where there is no progress, there is
disintegration." | |
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Grenville Kleiser
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| "MALEFACTOR, n. The chief factor in the progress of the human
race." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter
how slow." | |
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Aristotle
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| "Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least,
before they dance." | |
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Alexander Pope
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| "Progress always involves risk; you can?t steal second base and keep
your foot on first base." | |
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Fredrick Wilcox
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| "Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new
restrictions." | |
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Norbert Wiener
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| "Progress is a line through a list." | |
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L.D. McClanahan
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| "Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a
beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So surely
must the things we call evil and immorality disappear; so surely must man
become perfect." | |
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Herbert Spencer
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| "Progress is not created by contented people." | |
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Frank Tyger
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| "Progress, man"s distinctive mark alone, Not God"s, and not the
beasts: God is, they are; Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be." | |
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Robert Browning
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| "Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is
moving." | |
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Woodrow Wilson
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| "Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of
progress." | |
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Thomas Alva Edison
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| "Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is
advancing." | |
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Giuseppe Ma ini
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| "Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.
Advance with it." | |
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Giuseppe Mazzini
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| "Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is
secured as upon the result itself." | |
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Jane Addams
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| "Sometimes the things that hold you down are the things that hold you
up." | |
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David Oman McKay
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| "The best of good acts in God"s sight is that which is constantly
attended to although in a small degree." | |
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Prophet Muhammad
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| "The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with facts for which
Archimedes would have sacrificed his life." | |
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Joseph Ernest Renan
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| "The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of
those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have
little." | |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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| "The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it
can"t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it." | |
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Elbert Hubbard
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| "There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I?m afraid
it?s heading in the wrong direction." | |
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Ogden Nash
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| "Those who do the most for the world"s advancement are the ones who
demand the least." | |
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Henry Latham Doherty
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| "Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress
requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible
things." | |
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Russell Baker
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| "We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to
form up into teams, we would be reorganized." | |
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Gaius Petronius Arbiter
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| "What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always
the same step, but you have to take it." | |
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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| "What we call "progress" is the exchange of one nuisance for another
nuisance." | |
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Henry Havelock Ellis
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| "Without deviation, progress is not possible." | |
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Francis Vincent "Frank" Zappa, Jr.
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