 | "The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race."
- Don Marquis
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| "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."
- George Bernard Shaw
, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists". |
| "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."
- George Bernard Shaw
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| "What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."
- Havelock Ellis
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| "Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long."
- Ogden Nash
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| "Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."
- Plato
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| "Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."
- Russell Baker
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| "All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income."
- Samuel Butler
, Notebooks, 1912. |
| "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."
- Sir Winston Churchill
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