Quotes About Progress

There was a great deal of progress being made, right under their noses, particularly in Africa, and this progress was good. Life was much harder for tyrants than it had been before.

That place is the place we have always been, and if you think that where you have been is where you should be, then why go to another place that you do not know at all and may not be as good as the place you were in before somebody came along and said to you that you must go forwards—which is not what you wanted to do?

You can't condemn the present for the wrongs of the past.

products of soulless machines and relentless globalization…

Africa will get nowhere until we have mechanics... Mechanics are the first stone in the building. Then there are other people on top. Doctors. Nurses. Teachers. But the whole thing is built on mechanics. That is why it is important to teach young people to be mechanics.

Are we facing a new Dark Age, Angus? Possibly, Lou. A dark age in which our concentration spell is this long.

it,' he said. 'People change their

But you can certainly take fifteen years off everything these days." She paused. "But you can't take height off a mountain.

Annabelle finished the explanation. "It's just that they take some time to happen. That's the difference.

A problem articulated was a problem halfway to being solved.

Everything, thought Mama Ramotswe, has been something before.

Could you say that your business had expanded if it had gone from owning one teapot to two? Somehow

and although she'd glibly remarked that you couldn't stand still, was this actually true or was it a hollow axiom as false and misleading as any other trite saying? Why should one not stand still? If the position in which one found oneself standing was a satisfactory and comfortable one? She felt no need, no need at all to move on from being Mma Ramotswe of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, wife that great mechanic, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni.

Such was human progress; and to think that they were even talking now about filing papers in something called the Cloud. She was not sure how good an idea that would be in a country like Botswana, where the skies were always clear and empty, but that did not seem to be too much of an issue.

One never gets anywhere unless one leaves

It was not really like a person moving, thought Mma Ramotswe; it was more a geological movement

But that was what the world was like; we battered and bashed and poured out clouds of smoke and chemicals and particles of every description to bring forth our little objects of desire, our baubles.

I gaze forward without fear.

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the failure to make progress on this issue suggests a worldview in deep paradigmatic crisis.70 It's not for nothing that consciousness is considered one of the deepest mysteries facing the modern mind.

I sometimes wish I had lived in my grandfather's time instead of today. The pattern of life was less complicated then. This was a cleaner, greener land, and a man who took to the highroad might breathe, instead of gasoline vapors, a forgotten boon called air.

Do you want a piece of advice from your old father? Not really. Don't look back so much or you'll get wiped out on the tree in front of you.

Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.

And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?