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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

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In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

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Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

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The other states look to New York for the progressive direction. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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