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Quotes About Advancement

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.
~ Jeremy Rifkin
But for the silly chaps, we would still be living in the Stone Age.
~ Christopher Cockerell
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design.
~ Thom Mayne
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
~ John Stuart Mill
We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent.
~ John Steinbeck
voice even and his expression neutral. He didn't want to declare his sentiments until he had heard Harrison out. 'When he came to power, President Taffari sent for this woman. She was working in the forest at the time. He explained to her his plans for the advancement and development
~ Wilbur Smith
Slowly the increasing complexity of tools and trades subjected the unskilled or weak to the skilled or strong; every invention was a new weapon in the hands of the strong, and further strengthened them in their mastery and use of the weak.
~ Will Durant
struggle is the indispensable accompaniment of progress
~ Will Durant
As the Moslems advanced into India native culture receded farther and farther south; and towards the end of these Middle Ages the finest achievements of Hindu civilization were those of the Deccan.
~ Will Durant
Human progress is achieved by taking exact measurements.
~ William F. Buckley
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
~ William Faulkner
Civilization begins with distillation
~ William Faulkner
Here's a wagon that's going a piece of the way. It will take you that far; backrolling now behind her a long monotonous succession of peaceful and undeviating changes from day to dark and dark to day again, through which she advanced in identical and anonymous and deliberate wagons as though through a succession of creakwheeled and limpeared avatars, like something moving forever and without progress across an urn.
~ William Faulkner
Jobb felÅ'l utcai lámpák sora menetelt...
~ William Faulkner
None of us grew but the business.
~ William Gaddis
The drivers for the jackpot are still in place, but with less torque at that particular point." He took a seat at the table. "They're still a bit in advance of the pandemics, at least.
~ William Gibson
The future is here, it's just not widely distributed yet.
~ William Gibson
That printer'll only be the thirty-third in this state.
~ William Gibson
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
~ William Gibson
The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.
~ William Gibson
He's gaining on us, the Turk said. That is also inconceivable, the Sicilian said. Before I stole this boat we're in, I made many inquiries as to what was the fastest ship on all of Florin Channel and everyone agreed it was this one. You're right, the Turk agreed, staring back. He isn't gaining on us. He's just getting closer, that's all.
~ William Goldman
You're right," the Turk agreed, staring back. "He isn't gaining on us. He's just getting closer, that's all.
~ William Goldman