#ogre

All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind. ↗

— Eisaku Sato

#contributing #convinced #efforts #i #i am

The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear. If we are again to have progress, we must again be dominated by hope. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#progress #age

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

#civilization #conquest #development #law #march

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

#early work #loses #once #organization #pioneering

[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#invention #progress #home

Filming a movie is different from a TV show because film is a lot quicker, you get to see the character progress and grow all in one script, and in television, you wait for a weekly update on each character. ↗

— Ariel Winter

#character #different #each #film #filming

And so we said to General Motors that the solution had to be a first year increase, which had to be sizeable because we had to catch up with the lost position as against the cost of living and we had to make some progress. ↗

— Leonard Woodcock

#because #catch #cost #first #general

I was encouraged to hear that GM has made great progress on the hydrogen car. ↗

— Albert Wynn

#encouraged #gm #great #great progress #hear

We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress. ↗

— Shigeru Yoshida

#harmony #henceforth #japan #know #mankind

A prayerless age will have but scant models of divine power. The age may be a better age than the past, but there is an infinite distance between the betterment of an age by the force of an advancing civilization and its betterment by the increase of holiness and Christlikeness by the energy of prayer. ↗

— E.M. Bounds

#progress #age