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"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual."
"Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future."
"Our vision is beclouded and the pathway of our progress is obstructed until we come to know that god can and does express as Good in every person and every situation."
"No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid."
"Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation."
"Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow"
"It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts ... if the facts are right, then the proofs are a matter of playing around with the algebra correctly."
"Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out."
"Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones."
"In 1949, I believed that social progress, the triumph of the proletariat, socialism would lead to the emancipation of women. But I saw that nothing came of it: first of all, that socialism was not achieved anywhere, and that in certain countries which called themselves socialist, the situation of women was no better than it was in so-called capitalist countries."
"Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We have the high cost of government to diminish, and we are diminishing it. We have a heavy burden of taxation to reduce, and we are reducing it. But while remarkable progress has been made in these directions, the work is yet far from accomplished."
"The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child."
"New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth."
"If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead."
"A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress."
"We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress."
"It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out."
"Labor # Unions are the leading force for # democratization and # progress ."
"The secret of making progress is to get started."
"Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress."
