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"What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies."
"Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress."
"The core values of our constitution are at the heart of our nation's progress."
"Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience."
"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world."
"Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language."
"Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us"
"Progress just means bad things happen faster."
"A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road."
"The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect."
"He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray"
"Progress is the realization of utopia."
"All progress depends upon the unreasonable person."
"At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country."
"The whole point of science is that most of it is uncertain. That's why science is exciting--because we don't know. Science is all about things we don't understand. The public, of course, imagines science is just a set of facts. But it's not. Science is a process of exploring, which is always partial. We explore, and we find out things that we understand. We find out things we thought we understood were wrong. That's how it makes progress."
"As relationships progress, the time you spend smooching diminishes. Where kissing was once an enjoyable entree unto itself, it becomes a mere appetizer couples hasten through on the way to the main course."
"To progress is always to begin always to begin again"
"Any deviation from the ordinary course of life in this quiet town was enough to stop all progress in it."
"All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty."
"Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors."
