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“Garret went across the street to the library. There was a hole in the sidewalk the size of a bathtub. Construction was being done, was always being done. It was the journey that mattered, Garret th...”
“The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes.”
“Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.”
“An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed su...”
“Progress is discovering what you can do without.”
“At the very time when we have been boasting of our enlightenment and knowledge and understanding, there is this tragic breakdown in personal relationships. ... For instance, we now have to have Mar...”
“I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking.”
“Progress is not accomplished in one stage.”
“We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds in the name of destiny and in the name of God.”
“Thats progress, McIlveen”
“A religion that demands absolutely irrefutable obedience, is anything but religion.”
“Progress is in simplification, which often follows complexity.”
“a Philosopher could not grasp the modern idea of progress ... until he was willing to abandon ancestor worship, until he analyzed away his inferiority complex toward the past, and realized that his...”
“Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessor.”
“Progress was never meant to be stinted, and even failures werent to be destroyed.”
“Measuring progress is often like watching grass grow. While its difficult to detect movement on a daily basis, its simple to see growth over time.”
“Strategy is for making progress and progress is in simplicity.”
“Much of human progress has involved reducing the time and energy, as well as the number of processes we have to engage in and think about, for each of us to obtain the necessities of life.”
“One thing you notice about progress, kid, is that it doesn't happen to everyone.”
“Those who ignore the destructive potential of new technologies can do so only because they ignore history . Pogroms are as old as Christendom , but without railways, the telegraph and poison gas th...”