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"Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress."
"Emotions are the fuel and the mind is the pilot which together propel the ship of civilized progress."
"The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences."
"To slacken the tempo...would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten."
"Courage means to keep making forward progress while you still feel afraid!"
"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem."
"Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy."
"To know that you do not know and to be willing to admit that you do not know without sheepishly apologizing is real strength and sets the stage for learning and progress in any endeavor."
"If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it."
"Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the inner security, happiness, reason and the capacity for love in the individual; it tends to turn him into an automaton who pays for his human failure with increasing mental sickness, and with despair hidden under a frantic drive for work and so called pleasure."
"It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up."
"Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto."
"If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow."
"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions"
"Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment."
"If you look at any successful person, at the start they were not balanced, balanced people go nowhere. They stay in one spot. To make progress you must first go unbalanced. Just look at how you make progress walking"
"[To] mechanical progress there is apparently no end: for as in the past so in the future, each step in any direction will remove limits and bring in past barriers which have till then blocked the way in other directions; and so what for the time may appear to be a visible or practical limit will turn out to be but a bend in the road."
"You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress."
"Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose."
"What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless."
