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That in our proper motion we ascend
Up to our native seat; descent and fall
To give read more

That in our proper motion we ascend
Up to our native seat; descent and fall
To give us is adverse.

by John Milton Found in: Progress Quotes,
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So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings,
goes but to build up great fortunes, to read more

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings,
goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make
sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of
Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

by Henry George Found in: Progress Quotes,
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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.

by George Bernard Shaw Found in: Progress Quotes,
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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.

by Ogden Nash 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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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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All rising to great place is by a winding stair.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair.

by John Quincy Adams Found in: Progress Quotes,
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Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun,
But dream of him, and guess where he may be,
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Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun,
But dream of him, and guess where he may be,
And do the best to climb, and get to him.

by Robert Browning Found in: Progress Quotes,
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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.

by James Russell Lowell Found in: Progress Quotes,
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