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The
art of progress is to preserve
order amid change and to
preserve change amid order.
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We
should so live and labor in our time that what came to us as seed
may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as
blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by
progress.
Henry Ward
Beecher
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The test of our
progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of
those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for
those who have too little.
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Progress
means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have
taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any
nearer.
If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn
and walking back to the right road; and in that case the person
who turns back soonest is the most progressive person.
C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity
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Every
day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful.
Yet
there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening,
ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will
never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from
discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Winston Churchill
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Action
and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change--
this is the rhythm of our living. Out of our over-confidence,
fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope.
And out of hope, progress.
Bruce Barton
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All
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Honest
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Discontent
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Flaubert didn’t just hate
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point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway
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no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will
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Progress
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restrictions.
Norbert Wiener
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Does progress mean that we dissolve our ancient
myths? If we forget our
legends, I fear that we shall close an important door to the
imagination.
James Christensen
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Do
you realize it’s been only a century that we’ve been able to go
from house to car to office to car to wherever, with the heater on,
and the defroster on, protected from the rain and the cold? It
hasn’t
been much longer than that we’ve had lighting for streets. Think
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'Progress'
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the two
as different, almost incompatible, since progress means, or should
mean,
change for the better - toward social justice, a livable and open
world,
equal opportunity and affirmative action for all forms of life. And
I mean
all forms, not merely the human. The grizzly, the wolf, the
rattlesnake,
the condor, the coyote, the crocodile, whatever, each and every
species has as much right to be here as we do.
Edward Abbey
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Progress is discovering what you can do without.
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