Quotes About Progress

Why should I let anything stand in the way of life, liberty, and the pursuit of vivisection? I

By the time I went to sleep tonight, Crowley would have gone the way of the dodo and the balanced budget.

Well," I said, still waiting, "it all starts with Kraunauer." A good start: Debs nodded. "Okay," she said.

and I have always found that if things have a choice of directions, they are most likely to go downhill.

Have you ever noticed that when you're right on track everything else starts to go right, too? It's like the universe is saying Good job! Have a sandwich!

As has happened in the American Civil War and World War I, the technology for mass destruction has far outpaced man's ability to maintain the peace.

A small step forward is better than one back.

the mid-Fifties, the first hairline crack appeared in the dam barring Asian immigration. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, also known as the McCarran-Walter Act, finally abolished race-based restrictions against naturalization as a U.S. citizen, which had, since 1790, been limited to "free white persons of good character.

It's safe to say that South Korea now has a reputation for being a place where cool stuff comes from. And yet, just 70 years ago—after the end of the Korean War—Korea was one of the poorest nations in the world.

The past is dead; let it bury it's dead, its hopes and aspirations; before you lies the future. Let me beseech you to lay aside all rancor, all bitter sectional feeling, and to take your places in the ranks of those who will bring about a consummation devoutly to be wished--a reunited country.

Whatever else you could say about Jason Westerfield, grass didn't grow under the man's feet. A

Organized crime needed to wake up to the twenty-first century.

The pictures slipped past again and I kept looking at them. Some of the scans were sepia pictures, going back a hundred years; some were black-and-white; some were oversaturated, from the sixties and seventies. Many were recent, direct digital. Finally

The thrust is that in order to improve society you should concentrate on the small things. If you control those—or fix them—then the bigger changes will follow.

The experience of watching Leonard get better was like reading certain difficult books. It was plowing through late James, or the pages about agrarian reform in Anna Karinina, until you suddenly got to a good part again, which kept on getting better and better until you were almost grateful for the previous dull stretch because it increased your eventual pleasure. All of a sudden, Leonard was his old self again, extroverted, energetic, charismatic, and spontaneous.

never thought they'd see in their lifetime. With

We should, of course, look back with pride on our colonial empire, but be willing at the same time to grasp the nettles of opportunity.

During the next few days, Harry learnt

Very few entrepreneurs don't have setbacks along the way,' said Alex. 'According to Galbraith, the wise ones chalk it up on the blackboard of experience and move on.

Let's get on with bringing out the second

I prefer being up-and-coming. Gives us something to look forward to.

make you up to a brigadier so you've got

few even have a woman on the board.

strengthens its circuits when you use it in