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Quotes About Progress

I see many more men who are feminist, or at least who have learned about life in the context of feminism.
~ Jane Fonda
Why was man created before woman? Because you always need a rough draft before the final copy." – Chloe Traeger
~ Jill Shalvis
As Bernie Sanders said himself, it's a movement, not a man. And that movement continues to move into our campaign.
~ Jill Stein
In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened.
~ Joan Collins
Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man must strive, and striving he must err.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.
~ John Burns
Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
~ John Denham
If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.
~ John F. Kennedy
Let's think about how we can bring economic development, let's see if people could learn a little more of the rule of law, rather than the rule of man, which is kind of what you see in China.
~ John Kasich
We shall have a race of men who are strong on telemetry and space communications but who cannot read anything but a blueprint or write anything but a computer program.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities.
~ John Locke
What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
~ John Maynard Keynes
... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)
~ John Ruskin
Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.
~ John Steinbeck
Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.
~ John Steinbeck
Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.
~ John Stuart Mill
Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
You have to be deviant if you're going to do anything new.
~ David Lee
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
~ Ann Richards