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Quotes About Progress

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
~ Barbara Jordan
Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.
~ Ralph Merkle
Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, becausetime has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.
~ Chanakya
Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.
~ Nikola Tesla
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
~ Henry George
To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
~ Bobby Seale
I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
~ Thomas A. Edison
I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
~ Lucy Stone
If you don't have the power to change yourself, then nothing will change around you.
~ Anwar Sadat
Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I'm extremely confident that solar will be at least a plurality of power, and most likely a majority... in less than 20 years.
~ Elon Musk
Never underestimate your power to change yourself.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
~ Susan B. Anthony
No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely, positively do have the power to change.
~ Bill Phillips
Power isn't just about going forward. It's about not letting anything hold you back.
~ Patrick Willis
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Environmental challenges have the power to deny equality of opportunity and hold back the progress of communities.
~ Lisa P. Jackson
Are we gonna see power laces in 2015? To that I say yes!
~ Tinker Hatfield
To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power.
~ Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.
~ Elizabeth Janeway
No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.
~ Manmohan Singh
I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
~ Edgard Varese
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen.
~ Stephen Hawking