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"The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress."
"Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur."
"With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly."
"The march of the human mind is slow."
"Progress and growth are impossible if you always do things the way you've always done things."
"Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction."
"Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best."
"All human progress is preceded by new questions"
"Progress equals happiness."
"To follow the path that others have laid before you is a reasonable course of action; therefore all progress is made by unreasonable men."
"Just as the body has its progress and decadence, so also has the mind, and, therefore, the mind is not the soul, because the soul can neither decay nor degenerate."
"Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind."
"I'm a work in progress. I'm trying to be better."
"Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more."
"He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward."
"I must tell you that I am committed, as the president of Iraq, to benchmarks and to do our best to achieve some progress forward for national reconciliation."
"Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it."
"As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days."
"Obsolescence is the very hallmark of progress."