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Quotes About Progress

I don't want to leave this mess around my children to clean up. I want to swing absolutely as hard as I can to straighten things out before they get to the age where it starts hurting them.
~ Tom Morello
I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries.
~ Sydney Brenner
It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.
~ Voltaire
We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you've got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out.
~ Peter Drucker
The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones, and the age of oil won't end because we run out of oil.
~ Ahmed Zaki Yamani
Your latter days are supposed to be greater than your former days.
~ T. D. Jakes
A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people no longer remember that certain things can be done at all.
~ Jerry Pournelle
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.
~ Jackson Pollock
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
We must be authors of the history of our age.
~ Madeleine Albright
I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age
~ Charles Bukowski
In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent.
~ Barack Obama
We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.
~ Jeremy Rifkin
Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
~ Aaron Sorkin
The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
~ John W. Gardner
But for the silly chaps, we would still be living in the Stone Age.
~ Christopher Cockerell
Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.
~ Voltaire
Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
~ Ai Weiwei
I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.
~ Owen D. Young
He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.
~ Helen Keller
The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.
~ Vincent Massey
The Messianic era is the present age, which began to germinate with the teachings of Spinoza, and finally came into historical existence with the great French Revolution.
~ Moses Hess
We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.
~ Carl Sagan
Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms
~ Joseph McCabe