"The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress."
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"Each place along the way is somewhere you had to be in order to be here."
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"What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance."
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"I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I may never be bad enough to despair."
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"The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."
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"We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life."
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"To conquer by sheer force is becoming harder and harder every day. Defensive is getting continuously the advantage of offensive, as we progress in the satanic science of destruction."
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"Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance."
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"The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out."
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"Progress is not made by pulling off a series of stunts. Each step has to be regulated. A man cannot expect to progress without thinking."
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"No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded"
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"Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos."
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"Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it."
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"But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best."
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"The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work."
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"When you are able to shift your inner awareness to how you can serve others, and when you make this the central focus of your life, you will then be in a position to know true miracles in your progress toward prosperity."
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"The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster."
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"Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard."
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"The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety."
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"Movement isn't progress."
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