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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, Maxims for Revolutionists
Progress is a set of assumptions.
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
HERBERT HOOVER, State of the Union Address, December 2, 1930
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
SAMUEL BUTLER, Note Books
So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.
HENRY GEORGE, Progress and Poverty
The march of the human mind is slow.
EDMUND BURKE, speech on conciliation with America, 1775
Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day. All the higher instincts of our nature prophesy its approach; and the best intellects of the race are struggling to turn that prophecy into fulfilment.
HORACE MANN, A Few Thoughts for a Young Man
We have a stake in one another ... what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and ... if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done for the people with whom we share this Earth.
BARACK OBAMA, speech, Dec. 1, 2006
There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.
HENRY FORD, My Life and Work
Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.
LISA RANDALL, New York Times, Sep. 18, 2005
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
EDWARD GIBBON, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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