"Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last."
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"What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue."
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"This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease."
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"Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future."
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"Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality."
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"The past is not what it was."
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"When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress."
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"He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato."
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"If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful."
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"I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more - as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin to perform a real service."
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"There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off."
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"Change is not always progress... A fever of newness has everywhere been confused with the spirit of progress."
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"Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes."
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"The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive."
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"Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance."
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"Members of the Congress, the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress. We are all trustees for the American people, custodians of the American heritage. It is my task to report the State of the Union--to improve it is the task of us all."
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"The United States has to move very fast to even stand still."
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"Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline."
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"Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it, to look at it, to witness it. Try and get it. Seize the moment."
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"We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually."
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