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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to read more
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less read more
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
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.
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. read more
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
 A man prepared has half fought the battle.
 [Sp., Hombre apercebido medio combatido.]  
 A man prepared has half fought the battle.
 [Sp., Hombre apercebido medio combatido.] 
 From lower to the higher next,
 Not to the top, is Nature's text;
  And embryo good, to read more 
 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. 
 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. 
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.