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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the...

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Oscar WildeThe Soul of Man Under Socialism

Man was, and is, too shallow and cowardly to endure the fact of the mortality of everything living. ...

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Oswald SpenglerMan and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life

Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is ...

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Looking at him she felt she knew what the people of antiquity had been like. Thirty centuries or mor...

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It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if ...

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If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?

love is just a further impetus, not something that will prevent us going forward. We do not realize ...

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Some of the conclusions that I draw are very different from the ethical views most people hold today...

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If Enlightenment in a technical sense is the programmatic word for progress in the awareness of expl...

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Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by co...

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The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the m...

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Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much ...

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The moment I entered the bright, buzzing lobby of Men’s House I was overcome by a sense of alienatio...

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Yes, but does Maine have anything to SAY to Florida?

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are...

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We need to make progress. Otherwise we're waiting for news in a world where there is no longer any n...

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The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn,...

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That which comes into the world to disturb nothing deserves neither respect nor patience.

We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths....

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Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which lo...

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Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do somethin...

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If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.

While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of o...

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Because the world is in a sick condition and we are all somehow infected, against our will, even if ...

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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousand...

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One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.

Once you sink that first stake they'll never make you pull it up.

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really pr...

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The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution.

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Russell KirkThe Roots of American Order

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

Needless to say, there are people who hate Arabs, Somalis, and other immigrants from predominantly M...

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We have barely emerged from centuries of barbarism. It's not a surprise that there are shocking ineq...

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All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond ...

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All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond ...

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All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond ...

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All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond ...

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All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond ...

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All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond ...

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All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond ...

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All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond ...

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I care very much about women and their progress. I didn't go march in the streets, but when I was in...

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No true individual has existed yet, able to live, able to die. Only diseased, tragic, or dismal and ...

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Do you realize it’s been only a century that we’ve been able to go from house to car to office to ca...

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We should use our imagination more than our memory.

We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance ...

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No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give...

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Is it just possible that the most vigorous and boldest idealists have been the worst enemies of huma...

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The New Dimension is peaceful, and all work here just as they do on Earth. It’s a place where learni...

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Progress is something with no pity, and no purpose. It just happens. It chews up all you ever knew, ...

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Spider RobinsonCallahan's Crosstime Saloon

The word "impossible" is only in the mindAnd not in the heart.If we can remain in the heart,There wi...

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Sri ChinmoyThe Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey

Do you want to make progress? If so, then take each problem not as a challenging rival, but as an en...

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Sri ChinmoyThe Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey

To make the fastest progress,Be an absolutely cheerfulHero-warriorAnd take both victory and failureA...

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Sri ChinmoyThe Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

Progress is a wonderful thing of course, and I can appreciate the lactiferins that are sprinkled on ...

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Stanisław LemThe Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy

It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains ...

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Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in ...

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Stephen Jay GouldThe Structure of Evolutionary Theory

You could say I lost my faith in science and progressYou could say I lost my belief in the holy Chur...

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Angelina, I think of you as my friend, the dearest of friends, and it tortures me to go against you,...

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When the war was in progress, England and France agreed wholeheartedly with the Fourteen Points. As ...

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Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better.

Mrs Guinea answered my letter and invited me to lunch at her home. That was where I saw my first fin...

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Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibili...

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And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent Godless people:Their only monument the asphalt roadAnd a t...

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An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits ...

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He looked at her defiantly, and she thought: and so one at a time we all become human—human werewolv...

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Then the Dean repeated the mantra that has had such a marked effect on the progress of knowledge thr...

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And the people of Ankh-Morpork are so thirsty for novelty that the whole city is, you might say, hur...

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The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, ...

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It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance,...

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The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a be...

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If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner ...

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It takes two or three generations to do what I tried to do in one; and my impulses--affections--vice...

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While he was conscious of improving at every stroke, he did not feel that the other was asserting an...

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Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Nothing is more likely than that [the] enumeration of powers is defective. This is the ordinary case...

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I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think m...

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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government a...

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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covena...

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The probable accumulation of the surpluses of revenue beyond what can be applied to the payment of t...

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Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education ...

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War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calcu...

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Later times have laid all the blame upon the Goths and Vandals, but, however unwilling the partizans...

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Later times have laid all the blame upon the Goths and Vandals, but, however unwilling the partizans...

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Jerusalem was capital of southern Israel, known then as Judah. Isn't it true that there's always a r...

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After the monkeys came down from the trees and learned to hurl sharp objects, they had had to move i...

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Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

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Toni MorrisonSong of Solomon

Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.

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Tori AmosTori Amos: From the Choirgirl Hotel

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in t...

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Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was ...

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Progress - the stride of God!

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are done, we recognize one thing:...

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Progress is not accomplished in one stage.

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Victor HugoLes Misérables

It is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul...

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It is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul...

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Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this somet...

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And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers recognising tha...

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Away and away the aeroplane shot, till it was nothing but a bright spark; an aspiration; a concentra...

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It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or l...

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