Quotes About Progress

The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures , nothing but mutations.

I pass lightly through the reactionary darkness.

As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.

One fragment from Vis consists of a ski tip, under which there is a wedge-like protuberance. It is carved in the shape of an elk's head facing towards the rear.3 It was evidently designed as a brake to prevent slipping backwards – a forerunner of modern waxless cross-country skis.

Until the advent of fast railway trains, in the late nineteenth century, a skier was the fastest human being on earth.

and perhaps tomorrow may see the end of these difficulties. Difficulties are just things to overcome after all."44

It is more than a framework for evaluation. It is a framework for motivation and a framework for achievement.

Standards-based grading is grounded in several key principles: grades must accurately describe a student's progress and current level of achievement; habits of scholarship should be assessed and reported separately; grades are for communication, not motivation or punishment; grades must be specific enough in what they measure that it is clear what students need to work on to improve; and student engagement is key to the grading process.

I was young those nights, but I was getting over it.

Errors once discovered are more than half amended

In the words of Frederick Douglass, "That sturdy old Roman, Benjamin Butler, made the negro a contraband, Abraham Lincoln made him a freeman, and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant made him a citizen.

his optimistic view of America's potential coexisted with an essentially pessimistic view of human nature.

So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instrument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind us no longer.

Frederick Douglass paired Grant with Lincoln as the two people who had done most to secure African American advances:

Most important, the states had set up machinery to perpetuate the work and avert backsliding.

Congress adopted the dollar as the official monetary unit in 1785, but for many years New York shopkeepers still quoted prices in pounds, shillings, and pence.

soon to be eclipsed by New York.

but she was now better equipped to withstand his loss than she had been a few years earlier.

Archbold scandal pushed him toward his proper career: that of a full-time philanthropist.

Rockefeller was fortunate to have applied his money at the precise moment that medical research matured as a discipline and offered unbounded opportunities.

As with industrial methods, Rockefeller broke down cycling into its component parts then perfected each movement.

As early as 1775, Philadelphia Quakers had launched the world's first antislavery society, followed by others in the north and south.

By 1784, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Connecticut had outlawed slavery or passed laws for its gradual extinction

Rockefeller eventually realized that medical research ideally suited his needs.