"New technology is the true friend of full employment; the indispensable ally of progress; and the surest guarantee of prosperity."
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"The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer."
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"Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people."
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"In the final analysis, the progress of our civilization will be retarded if any large body of citizens falls behind. Without the help of thousands of others, any one of us would die, naked and starved."
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"Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back."
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"Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it is that human progress, founded on natural knowledge, advances with ever increasing speed."
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"The reason of the close concurrence between the individuals progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other."
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"Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions."
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"Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress."
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"I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like."
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"The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom."
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"The mind's direction is more important than its progress."
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"Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has."
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"...everything in psychosocial evolution which can properly be called advance, or progress, or improvement, is due directionaly to the increase or improvement of knowledge."
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"Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress."
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"Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God and without this hard work time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation."
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"My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm never absolutely certain that what I've written is any good."
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"If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development."
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"Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each."
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"But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine."
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