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“Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral
with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and
dissolution.”
Henry George Quotes Source: Progress and Poverty--Introductory--The Problem
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“He who moves not forward goes backward!
A capital saying!”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes Source: Hermann and Dorothea (canto III, l. 66)
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“To look up and not down,
To look forward and not back,
To look out and not in--and
To lend a hand.”
Edward Everett Hale Quotes Source: Rule of the "Harry Wadsworth Club" (ch. IV), from "Ten Times One in Ten"
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“Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?”
Stanislaw Lec Quotes Source: Unkempt Thoughts
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“I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a
bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has
had before.”
Gerald Stanley Lee Quotes Source: Crowds (pt. II, ch. III)
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“From lower to the higher next,
Not to the top, is Nature's text;
And embryo good, to reach full stature,
Absorbs the evil in its nature.”
James Russell Lowell Quotes Source: Festina Lente--Moral
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“New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth;
They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of
truth.”
James Russell Lowell Quotes Source: Present Crisis
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“"Spiral!" the memorable Lady terms
Our mind's ascent.”
George Meredith Quotes Source: The World's Advance, in notes to Meredith's "Poetical Works", G.M. Trevelyan says the Lady is Mrs. B
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“That in our proper motion we ascend
Up to our native seat; descent and fall
To give us is adverse.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 75)
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“What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue.
[Lat., Quod sequitur, fugio; quod fugit, usque sequor.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes Source: Amorum (II, 19, 36)
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“There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.”
E. J. Klemme Quotes |
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“I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.”
Frank Moore Colby Quotes |
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“Those who work most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand least.”
Henry Doherty Quotes |
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“Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.”
Alexander Pope Quotes |
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“Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God.”
H. L. Mencken Quotes |
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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to him--therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.”
Samuel Butler Quotes |
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“He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.”
Charles Caleb Colton Quotes |
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“Speak softly, and carry a big stick; you will go far.”
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
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“Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?”
Stanislaw Lem Quotes |
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“I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.”
Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
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