"The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it."
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"Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress."
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"It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking."
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"We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years, but if we want to continue, our future is in space."
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"All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."
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"If there's no struggle, there's no progress."
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"If you feel blocked, do not turn to others, but look inside, in silence, for the enemy of your progress."
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"By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death"
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"Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included."
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"Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress."
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"The road before us is shorter than the road behind."
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"We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time."
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"Then let every one of us, being warned by this sentence of the angel, acknowledge that he as yet cleaves to first principles, or, at least, does not comprehend all those things which are necessary to be known; and that therefore progress is to be made to the very end of life: for this is our wisdom, to be learners to the end."
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"The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress."
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"Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily."
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"People can progress only by working and producing more."
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"All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions."
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"The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble."
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"Unless we progress, we regress."
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"Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection."
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