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    Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like
    clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set
    to true time.

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What is art
But life upon the larger scale, the higher,
When, graduating up in a spiral read more

What is art
But life upon the larger scale, the higher,
When, graduating up in a spiral line
Of still expanding and ascending gyres,
It pushed toward the intense significance
Of all things, hungry for the Infinite?
Art's life--and where we live, we suffer and toil.

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Progress is
The law of life, man is not
Man as yet.

Progress is
The law of life, man is not
Man as yet.

by Robert Browning Found in: Progress Quotes,
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With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three
thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation read more

With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three
thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation
Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist
that there is no such thing as progress.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Progress Quotes,
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Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God.

Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God.

by H. L. Mencken Found in: Progress Quotes,
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And striving to be Man, the worm
Mounts through all the spires of form.

And striving to be Man, the worm
Mounts through all the spires of form.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Progress Quotes,
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

by George Bernard Shaw Found in: Progress Quotes,
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Those who work most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand least.

Those who work most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand least.

by Henry Doherty Found in: Progress 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 read more

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.

by Frank Moore Colby Found in: Progress Quotes,
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

by Aldous Huxley Found in: Progress Quotes,
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