"It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur."
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"Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger."
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"Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many."
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"People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't."
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"There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase life's hustling; so that, unless we can dominate the mischief, we are really the worse off instead of the better."
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"The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen."
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"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress."
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"The progress in Iraq has not been without cost."
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"The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter."
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"When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless."
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"If you take an hour out of your day to meditate, you will progress ten-fold. By staying mentally focused, you can let your worries go."
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"Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory."
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"How can you help the human race progress?"
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"Our goal is to go from bright to brighter to brightest, from high to higher to highest. And even in the highest, there is no end to our progress, for God Himself is inside each of us and God at every moment is transcending His own Reality."
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"There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change."
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"If you take a diamond that's raw and you put one face to it, it has that one face, and then you've gotta find another face. At the end, you're going to have this diamond that's everything you've done. I feel that's the way you should look at it because that puts you in a constant state of progress."
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"History shows that wars are divided into two kinds-just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress are unjust."
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"Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far."
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"Therefore, be islands unto yourselves. Be your own refuge. Have recourse to none else for refuge. Hold fast to the Dharma as a refuge. Resort to no other refuge. Whosoever, either now or after I am gone, shall be islands unto themselves, shall seek no eternal refuge, it is they, among my disciples who shall reach the very topmost height! But they must be keen to progress."
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"Vanity is so superficial. It doesn't provide the grounds for progress."
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