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• I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Horror, Work In Progress, Novel

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• Capital is to the progress of society what gas is to a car.

  James Adams

  Progress Of Society, Car, Gas

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• What is called economic progress is the joint effect of the activities of the three progressive groups-or classes-of the savers, the scientist-inventors, and the entrepreneurs, operating in a market economy as far as it is not sabotaged by the endeavors of the nonprogressive majority of the routinists and the public policies supported by them.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Class, Entrepreneur, Majority

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

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• There is a contradiction between market liberalism and political liberalism. The market liberals (e.g., social conservatives) of today want family values, less government, and maintain the traditions of society (at least in America's case). However, we must face the cultural contradiction of capitalism: the progress of capitalism, which necessitates a consumer culture, undermines the values which render capitalism possible

  Slavoj Žižek

  Government, America, Political

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• Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

  Norman O. Brown

  Psychology, Society, Neurosis

  Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.18, Wesleyan University Press

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• Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history - the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre of heathens, and other no less repulsive manifestations of Christian civilization in Europe and elsewhere - modern man is filled with pride in the progress accomplished, in one line at least, since the end of the dark ages of religious fanaticism.

  Savitri Devi

  Christian, Religious, Dark

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• Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.

  H. L. Mencken

  Strong, Fighting, Fate

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.160, Vintage

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• If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England would surpass all their wildest dreams, that the annual revenue would equal the principal of that debt which they considered an intolerable burden, that for one man of

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Dream, Men, England

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• The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Kings, Government, Tyrants

  Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.9

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• If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other people's opinions. Of course, this may be only an exaggerated way of stating the prosaic truth that reputation, that is, the opinion others have of us, is indispensable if we are to make any progress in the world.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mean, People, Honor

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.35, 谷月社

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• I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west. We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go westward as into the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Moving, Adventure

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.7, 谷月社

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• A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Clever, Lying, Men

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• Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Death, Would Be, Awareness

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Growing Knowledge, Gains

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• We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Reason, Stage, Right Thing

  Buckminster Fuller (1992). “Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity”, p.29, The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress of Truth, as the grim statues of Copan have been pushed from their pedestals by the growth of forest-trees, whose seeds were sown by the wind in the ruined walls.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Nature, Wall, Idols

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855). “The Works: Kavanagh. Outre-Mer”, p.38

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• Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Civilization, Liberty, Barbarism

  Robert Green Ingersoll, Isaac Newton Baker (1899). “Trial of C.B. Reynolds for Blasphemy, at Morristown, N.J., May 19th and 20th, 1887”

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• Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

  Mac Thornberry

  Growth, Quality, Energy

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• New York, which is founded on forward motion and thus loath to acknowledge its dead, merely causes them to walk, endlessly unsatisfied and unburied, to invade the precincts of supposed progress, to lay chill hands on the heedless present, which does not know how to identify the forces that tug at its rationality.

  Luc Sante

  New York, Hands, Causes

  Luc Sante (2016). “Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York”, p.10, Macmillan

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• God leads us step by step, from event to event. Only afterward, as we look back over the way we have come and reconsider certain important moments in our lives in the light of all that has followed them, or when we survey the whole progress of our lives, do we experience the feeling of having been led without knowing it, the feeling that God has mysteriously guided us.

  Paul Tournier

  Light, Knowing, Feelings

  Paul Tournier (1982). “Reflections: a personal guide for life's most crucial questions”, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Risk is an essential part of progress.

  Robert G. Allen

  Risk, Essentials

  Robert G. Allen (2006). “Creating Wealth: Retire in Ten Years Using Allen's Seven Principles of Wealth”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Moving, Air, Dust

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• In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.

  Eric Hoffer

  Running, Society, Affair

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up, working up, yea, bursting up-often through oppression, unjust discrimination and prejudice-but through them all we are coming up, and with proper habits, intelligence, and property, there is no power on earth than can permanently stay our progress.

  Booker T. Washington

  School, College, Prejudice

  Booker T. Washington (2014). “An Autobiography - The Story of My Life and Work”, p.100, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Progress-progress is the dirtiest word in the language-who ever told us- And made us believe it-that to take a step forward was necessarily, was always A good idea?

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Believe, Ideas, Steps

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