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What we call "progress " is the exchange of one nuisance for
another nuisance.
What we call "progress " is the exchange of one nuisance for
another nuisance.
Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone,
Not God's, and not the beast's;
God is, they are,
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Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone,
Not God's, and not the beast's;
God is, they are,
Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth;
They must upward still and onward, who would keep read more
New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth;
They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of
truth.
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.
Doubt can only be removed by action.
Doubt can only be removed by action.
Westward the course of empire takes its way;
The four first Acts already past,
A fifth shall read more
Westward the course of empire takes its way;
The four first Acts already past,
A fifth shall close the Drama with the day;
Time's noblest offspring is the last.
The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to him--therefore, all read more
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.
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral
with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution read more
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral
with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and
dissolution.
