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• Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Alterquest: the Alternative Quest for Answers". Book by Karen Fiala, 2006.

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• Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Luck, Use, Forks

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• Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

  Bruce Barton

  Change, Fear, Errors

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• Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspiring, Education, Teacher

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.107, Best Books on

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• Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Work, Struggle

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.

  Alexander Herzen

  Development, Able, Form

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• Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . .

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Sacrifice, Good Kings

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

  John Stuart Mill

  Life, Party, Order

  'On Liberty' (1859) ch. 2

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• Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Teaching, Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.117, Harvard University Press

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• Change is inevitable. Progress is optional .

  Tony Robbins

  Change, Positive, Success

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• What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Time, Book

  Sigmund Freud (2016). “Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex (Annotated)”, p.18, Sigmund Freud

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• Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Past, Race, Ideas

  "Tristes Tropiques". Book by Claude Lévi-Strauss, translated by John and Doreen Weightman. Chapter 38: "A Little Glass of Rum," pp. 393, 1955.

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• Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.

  Aldous Huxley

  Real, Charity, Originality

  "Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals".

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• Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Change, Life Changing, People Changing

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• Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.

  Herbert Spencer

  Accidents

  'Social Statics' (1850) pt. 1, ch. 2, 4

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• Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Progress Of Society, Cult, Superlatives

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Veterans Day, Witty, Military

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• Progress is the stride of God.

  Victor Hugo

  God, Stride

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• Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Intelligent, Civilization, Agitation

  "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas, May 23, 1908.

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• The story of the entrepreneur... is the story of forward progress, of pursuing one's dreams and goals no matter how outlandish they seem to others. The entrepreneur, like the pioneer, pushes boundaries in search of what's new, what's next. Sometimes, he brings the whole society with him, rushing forward together into a next phase of our communal human life.

  Sam Wyly

  Dream, Rushing, Goal

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• There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

  Edward de Bono

  Creativity, Imagination, Creative

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• Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

  Henry James

  Character, Ideas, Two

  Henry James (1930). “Charles W. Eliot: President of Harvard University, 1869-1909”

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• Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

  Florence Nightingale

  Happiness, Inspirational Life, Nursing

  Florence Nightingale, Ramona Salotti (2003). “Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not”, p.13, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

  Salman Rushdie

  Atheist, Ideas, Religion

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex.

  Karl Marx

  Sex, Philosophical, Female

  "Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes".

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