#progress

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long. ↗

— Ogden Nash

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I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men. ↗

— Christie Hefner

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Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

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The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. ↗

— Epictetus

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I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I don't blame anyone for it becoming the way it has. It's got its own hideous natural progression, just like world events. ↗

— Rupert Everett

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However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

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Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress. ↗

— Dale Turner

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