#progress

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. ↗

— Harold Wilson

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For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s. ↗

— Mike McCurry

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But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process. ↗

— Walter Lang

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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

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Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

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The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue. ↗

— Gabriel Lippmann

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Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights. ↗

— Eric Liu

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Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress. ↗

— Maimonides

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Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

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Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

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