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| The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia. |
| by Elbert Hubbard |
| Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. |
| by Albert Einstein |
| All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. |
| by Samuel Butler |
| All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its income. |
| by Samuel Butler |
| The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development. |
| by Confucius |
| Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution. |
| by Johann Von Goethe |
| The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. |
| by Charles F. Kettering |
| He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft. |
| by James Russell Lowell |
| Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. |
| by H.L. Mencken |
| All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. |
| by Adlai Stevenson |
| He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. |
| by Harold Wilson |
| There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change. |
| by Gurdjieff |
| Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. |
| by John Lubbock |
| 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. |
| by George Bernard Shaw |
| All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. |
| by Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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