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• Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.

  Vernor Vinge

  Ideas, Corny, Should

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• It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new earth.

  M. Carey Thomas

  Heaven, Sunrise, Rising

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• The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world.

  Joe Louis

  Champion, Heavyweights, World

  Joe Louis, Edna Rust, Art Rust (1978). “Joe Louis: My Life”, Harcourt

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• We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.

  Haile Selassie

  Made, Preserves

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• To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Men, Greed, Despair

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don’t.

  James Salter

  Writing, Ideas, Effort

  "James Salter: The Greatest Writer You've Never Read" by Alex Bilmes, www.esquire.com. June 21, 2015.

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• It's ok if others share our ideas as long as they build upon them. It's called progress.

  Simon Sinek

  Ideas, Long, Share

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Apr 20, 2015

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• I'd like people to know that you can head off kidney disease, maybe prevent a transplant or stop the disease from progressing after detection by doing a simple urine test in the doctor's office.

  Sean Elliott

  Simple, Doctors, Office

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• The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.

  Robert Barany

  Mind, Weakness, Way

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• I think we had made some tremendous progress in the six months before I left.

  Jeffrey Skilling

  Thinking, Six Months, Made

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• The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.

  Artur Davis

  Alabama, Racist, Steps

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• The growth of all the plants of the garden from seeds and roots keep us mindful, in accordance with of the Parable of the Sower, of the need for our loving, mortified reception and cultivation in our hearts and souls of the seeds and roots of the supernatural gifts and virtues necessary for progress in the ascetical/mystical ascent of our souls toward union with God and with the divine will for Creation and Kingdom

  John Stokes

  Heart, Garden, Roots

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• Hopelessness may be the saddest word in our language. Despair is the enemy of our souls. It can paralyze us, halt our progress, and cause us to lose our way. But hope awakens us like a light shining in the darkness. We can endure all things when our hope is centered in one who will never fail us-our Savior, Jesus Christ, who is the light of the world.

  Dwan J. Young

  Jesus, Light, Shining

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• The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Heart, Analysis, Literature

  Alfred de Vigny (1923). “Cinq Mars”

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• If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

  Charles Mengel Allen

  Technology, Race, Want

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• If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress.

  Isabel Paterson

  Years, Reactionaries, Ifs

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• We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivational, Mean, Generations

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.92

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• A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Motivational, Purpose, Clear

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• It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Jobs, Mistake

  Wired Science Interview, 2007.

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• The price of progress is trouble.

  Charles Kettering

  Trouble

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.

  Epictetus

  Men, Opposites, Wavering

  Epictetus (1895*). “Discourses: With the Encheiridion and Fragments”

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• The way to get ahead is to start now. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now and that you would not have known next year if you had waited.

  William Feather

  Years, Next Year, Way

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Intelligent, Use

  Keynote speech by Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, at the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, www.ohchr.org. November 16, 2016.

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• Progress is the mother of problems.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Problem

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2012). “The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton”, p.65, Ignatius Press

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• If human progress had been more a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia to-day.

  Thomas Reed

  Matter, Today, Utopia

  "Orations and addresses".

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