"An organisation can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no real progress"
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"Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative."
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"If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive."
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"I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next... of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin."
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"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century."
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"There is a period of life when we go back as we advance. [Fr., Il est un terme de la vie au-dela duquel en retrograde en avancant.]"
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"There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts."
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"It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar. Such communication has always been... one of the primary sources of progress."
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"It would degrade our country and our judicial system to permit our courts to be bullied, insulted and humiliated and the orderly progress thwarted and obstructed by defendants brought before them charged with crimes."
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"Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas's, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd."
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"In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual needs are still very great."
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"Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature"
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"If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress."
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"You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors."
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"Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation."
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"The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever."
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"At the most subtle level, your inner intelligence is steadily progressing along the corridors of eternity."
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"With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate one another as do savage tribes."
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"Progress has been much more general than retrogression"
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"The pace of progress in biology creates a foundation that naturally gets picked up by the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to solve rich-world diseases. This is attractive science. It's science that people want to work on."
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