Quotes About Progress

America is a country in which the storm is essential to clear the way for the calm. Because Americans, obsessed with the present and future, have difficulty remembering the past, they will all believe that there has never been a time as uncivil and tense as this one.

In some sense, the military is the most modern part of a developing country.

Rome wasn't planned, and neither did it just happen.

Japan will need to foster deep

the idea that the past is obsolete is always resisted at an era's end.

It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!

Avanzamos más de prisa o la calle se vuelve más corta: a fin de cuentas, da lo mismo.

Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal.

Today, on a per capita basis, Israel far leads the world in research and technological creativity.

An economy is a "noosphere" (a mind-based system), and it can revive as quickly as minds and policies can change.

How go the preparations for the wedding?" "Very well. How goes the world domination?" "It has its moments.

Adapt or die," Helen said. "It's impossible to stop change," Maud said. "It's the nature of life. Those who refuse to adapt will eventually die out. But before they do, they will get nasty. They might even hate you.

one of my first achievements was to blow up the warehouse all of us called home.

The pain gets better with time," I told her. "It always hurts, but it gets better.

your rank, the bigger the homestead. Despite the modern convenience of cities, almost all

My mom once told me that the American Dream was to live better than your parents." "Do you think it's true?" he asked. "I think everyone defines better differently. Some want more money. Others want more time.

Despite extensive travel, we no longer have plagues and epidemics.

Failure is the best teacher, and fear is the best motivator.

This is life," Luther said. "We change, we alter ourselves, we grow or shrink. It's part of the human condition.

It doesn't matter what you were. It matters what you are now.

I feel like we've had a real breakthrough here, Landon," Hugh said. "This is the most honest conversation we've ever had.

Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved .

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.