"The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained."
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"Adversity is the mother of progress."
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"Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember."
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"The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form."
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"Amid all change, we desire something permanent; amid all variety, something stable; amid all progress, some central unity of life; something which deepens as we ascend; which roots itself as we advance; which grows more and more tenacious of the old, while becoming more and more open to the new."
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"What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization."
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"When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before."
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"All the best things and treasures of this world are not to be produced by each generation for itself; but we are all intended, not to carve our work in snow that will melt, but each and all of us to be continually rolling a great white gathering snow-ball, higher and higher, larger and larger, along the Alps of human power."
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"Just live! Live now! Don't wait, and don't let anyone tell you that you're a work in progress."
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"Delay is the enemy of progress."
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"As in the case of making a mound, if, before the very last basketful, I stop, then I shall have stopped. As in the case of leveling the ground, if, though tipping only one basketful, I am going forward, then I shall be making progress."
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"If human progress had been more a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia to-day."
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"The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it."
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"Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed."
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"Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right."
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"If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
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"No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress."
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"To make progress you must actually get started. The key is to take a step today."
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"Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction."
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"God works according to the law of gradual growth, so don't be discouraged if your progress seems slow."
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