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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw
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All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

Martin Luther King Jr.
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The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much.  It is whether we provide enough to those who have little. -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butler
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Joseph Joubert
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Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. -Albert Einstein
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What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Havelock Ellis
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After several thousand years, we have advanced to the point where we bolt our doors and windows and turn on our burglar alarms - while the jungle natives sleep in open-door huts.

Morris Mandel
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It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward. -Old Chinese Proverb
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Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

Karl Marx
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The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.

Barbara Hall
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The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force. -George Bancroft
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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

Russell Baker
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Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Plato
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Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long. -Ogden Nash
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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Sir Winston Churchill
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -George Bernard Shaw
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All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.

George Bernard Shaw
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Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.

Oscar Wilde
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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
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Aldous Huxley
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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi
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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -Mahatma Gandhi
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Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

Mahatma Gandhi
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It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Theodore Roosevelt
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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Benjamin Franklin
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Alfred North Whitehead
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change. -Alfred North Whitehead
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