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Quotes About Progress

It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.
~ Mario Puzo
So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.
~ Mika
I'm a better person now, and not only that - I'm a better man
~ Paul Gascoigne
When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate 'comprehensivity.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.
~ Fred Allen
I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts have performed just as well as the men astronauts.
~ Shannon Lucid
The revolution of equality between men and women has began, there is no going back
~ Gertrude Mongella
Let us renew our faith that as free men and women we still have the power to better our lives.
~ Ronald Reagan
You must learn to see men and women...as perfect beings advancing to become complete.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Experience really does make you better, man.
~ Alan Vega
Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it's called the PGA Tour.
~ Alex Hay
Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
~ Alexandre Dumas
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
~ Anton Seidl
Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.
~ Aristotle
How can the world progress if women don't consider men ... the Man ... first?
~ Arlene Dahl
A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.
~ Bertrand Russell
There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
~ Booker T. Washington