Quotes About Progress

When we read, we start at the beginning and continue until we reach the end. When we write, we start in the middle and fight our way out.

It is funny what a year can do.

Remember when you first learned how to swim? In the beginning you struggled mightily to keep your head above water. But then, one day, something amazing happened: You gave up fighting to stay afloat. And when you did, you rose to the surface and floated effortlessly.

But wars—or the threat of war—at least put an end to American chattel slavery, Nazism, Fascism, Japanese militarism, and Soviet Communism. It is hard to think of any democracy—Afghan, American, Athenian, contemporary German, Iraqi, Italian, Japanese, ancient Theban—that was not an outcome of armed struggle and war.

Brasley still drank too much and liked his women, but at least he paced himself now, walking the path to self-destruction instead of sprinting down it at full speed.

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

Would you realize what Revolution is, call it Progress; and would you realize what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Yo sé bien que la vida da muchas vueltas, pero nunca en una misma dirección.

Además, el tiempo se encarga de acabar con las ridiculeces. Es más, se encarga de acabar con todo.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, and given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the living.' Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, 1852

Poppe, once a leading figure at a scientific research institute, found a job as a swimming pool attendant

Overnight the Revolution had brought political freedoms never before known in Russia – and hardly ever since.

Overnight the Revolution had brought political freedoms never before known in Russia – and hardly ever since. People could say, write and read what they wanted, something they could not do a year later – nor their great-grandchildren a hundred years later.

Did the primitive Ancestor have any inkling of voluntary death? Or is that an attainment of the higher civilizations, which offer no other means of escape? Let's

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