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"It is only when people can feel that their lives and the property which their industry has produced today will continue to be safe...that there can be...stability of value and...economic progress."
"Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid."
"Even one justice can advance or reverse the progress of our journey."
"Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes."
"Nothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when things go amiss, are inclined to blame ourselves, remembering that judgment alone can disturb our peace and constancy, I swear to you by all the gods that we have made progress."
"Don’t follow someone else’s map. You should glean teachings from all directions, keeping true to those that bring progress yet remaining open to changes in yourself."
"Arms alone can give the world no permanent peace, no confident security. Arms are solely for defense - to protect from violent assault what we already have. They are only a costly insurance. They cannot add to human progress."
"The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress."
"In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress."
"Change is one thing, progress is another."
"Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge."
"Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease."
"Only those young people can be accepted as healthy who refuse to be reconciled with the old order and foolishly or wisely struggle against it - such is the will of nature..."
"My sound is constantly progressing and maturing. It's hard with all the songs that I have written over the years to compile them all into one album. It's almost impossible to categorize them into one genre."
"Painting is a slow process; it takes time to get there, you learn little by little and always want the next painting to be better than the last. For me, success is about this, seeing the slow progress in my work."
"There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber."
"In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured."
"If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes."
"Our goals should serve as markers, measurements of the progress we make in pursuit of something greater than ourselves."
"Most progress is most failure."
