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• When you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Want, Enough, Please

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• That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Mind, Use, Behinds

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• There are no limits to growth and human progress
  when men and women are free to follow their dreams.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Men, Growth

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 1985, Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington D.C.

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• Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there's room for improvement.

  Simon Sinek

  Curiosity, Looks, World

  Twitter post from Aug 12, 2010

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• The usual terminology of political language is stupid. What is 'left' and what is 'right'? Why should Hitler be 'right' and Stalin, his temporary friend, be 'left'? Who is 'reactionary' and who is 'progressive'? Reaction against an unwise policy is not to be condemned. And progress towards chaos is not to be commended.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Stupid, Political Language, Usual

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• To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.

  Lewis Carroll

  Helping Others, Giving, Goal

  Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Home, Rights, Citizens

  Remarks at presentation of booklet on human rights, In Your Hands, to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, United Nations, New York, March 27, 1958.

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• It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. ... Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.

  Larry Page

  Inspirational, Dream, Crazy

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• In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Winning, Race

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• All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Spirit, Landmarks

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Here's what you must do. It's pretty simple, really, but I didn't say easy. It's what sets those who succeed apart from those who don't: You must have a sincere and burning desire to achieve what you dream, dedicate yourself to making progress, and take control of your circumstances to change your body.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Dream, Simple, Desire

  Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding: The Bible of Bodybuilding, Fully Updated and Revis”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown.

  Vannevar Bush

  Play, Choices, Curiosity

  United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development, Vannevar Bush (1945). “Science, the endless frontier: A report to the President”, p.7

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• In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons.

  Ruth First

  Book, Lists, Corny

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• How do we slow down what matters the most and speed up what benefits change and progress? We don't want to impede progress, but we are seeking reconnection to ourselves, to each other, and with the world.

  John Maeda

  What Matters, Cities, Benefits

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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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• Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses ... it's progressing. ... Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set. ... 20 years from now, labor demand for lots of skill sets will be substantially lower. I don’t think people have that in their mental model.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Technology, Thinking

  "Bill Gates on Robots" by Peter Hoare, www.askmen.com.

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• By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that were aid recipients are now self-sufficient. You might think that such striking progress would be widely celebrated, but in fact, Melinda and I are struck by how many people think the world is getting worse. The belief that the world can’t solve extreme poverty and disease isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful. That’s why in this year’s letter we take apart some of the myths that slow down the work. The next time you hear these myths, we hope you will do the same.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Self, Years

  "3 Myths That Block Progress For The Poor". Bill and Melinda Gates' 2014 Annual Letter, www.gatesfoundation.org. January 20, 2014.

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• It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment of mankind. It is the spirit of the child that can determine the course of human progress and lead it perhaps even to a higher form of civilization.

  Maria Montessori

  Strong, Children, Psychics

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• It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement. When this comes to be realized man's journey toward higher and more lasting values will show more marked progress while the evil in him recedes into the background. Knowing that material and spiritual progress are essential to man, we must ceaselessly work for the equal attainment of both. Only then shall we be able to acquire that absolute inner calm so necessary to our well-being.

  Haile Selassie

  Spiritual, Journey, Men

  The Voice of Ethiopia, April 5, 1948.

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• Go on working, freely and furiously, you will make progress and sooner or later your worth will be recognised, if you have any.

  Paul Gauguin

  Goes On

  "Letters to His Wife and Friends".

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• Music is an art form that doesn't need to be explained. It needs to be performed; it needs to be felt; it needs to be listened to; it needs to progress.

  Roberta Flack

  Art, Needs, Form

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• We've ceased making progress at the top in any industry anywhere in the world . In the United States, women have had 14% of the top corporate jobs and 17% of the board seats for 10 years. Ten years of no progress.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Work, Women

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• The illusiveness of this concept of national income is to be seen in its dependence on changes in the purchasing power of the monetary unit. The more inflation progresses, the higher rises the national income.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Income, Making Money, Purchasing

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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