Quotes with progress

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  • Harold Wilson He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
    Harold Wilson
    British Labour politician (1916 - 1995)
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  • Marquis de Sade Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends... with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Henry J. Kaiser I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.
    Henry J. Kaiser
    American industrialist (1882 - 1967)
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  • Bertrand Russell I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Alan Dershowitz I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • Marie Curie I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.
    Marie Curie
    French physicist, radioactivity pioneer, 2x Nobel Prize winner (1867 - 1934)
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  • B. C. Forbes Ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea by itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Guy Debord Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.
    Guy Debord
    French philosopher (1931 - 1994)
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  • Calvin Coolidge If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • David Rockerfeller If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.
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  • Boris Sidis If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.
    The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Frederick Douglass If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
    Frederick Douglass
    African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer (1818 - 1895)
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  • Barack Obama If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Booker T. Washington In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
    Up From Slavery (1901) Ch. XIV: The Atlanta Exposition Address
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Henry van Dyke In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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