"Arrive at knowledge over small streamlets, and do not plunge immediately into the ocean, since progress must go from the easier to the more difficult."
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"I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties."
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"We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government."
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"The greater part of progress is the desire to progress."
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"If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives."
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"If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress."
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"Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there's room for improvement."
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"The primary ingredient for progress is optimism. The unwavering belief that something can be better drives the human race forward."
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"Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be."
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"In art there is no progress, only fluctuations of intensity."
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"Natural selection is just three factors - over-production, variation, and inheritance combined to produce adaptation to changing local environments. It's not a principle or progress; it's just a principle of local adaptation. You don't make better creatures in any cosmic sense; you make creatures that are better suited to the changing climates of their local habitats."
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"If you're not uncomfortable on a daily basis, you're not making much progress."
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"Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress."
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"The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us"
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"In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery."
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"If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress."
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"Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct; it acknowledges no limits to its projects. Reason itself does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order gradually to progress from one level of insight to another."
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"It would seem that it was not in the interest of 'someone' for us to make progress. It was in 'someone's' interest that we be always at war, that we tear each other to pieces. Yes, I'm inclined to absolve the Pakistanis. How should they have behaved? Someone encouraged them to attack us, someone gave them weapons to attack us. And they attacked us."
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"Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize."
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"The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars."
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