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Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.
Joyce Grenfell
A lot of what appears to be progress is just so much technological rococo.
Bill Grey
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
Orson Welles, in The Third Man 1
The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Italy, 30 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.
James Burke
The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear. If we are again to have progress, we must again be dominated by hope.
Bertrand Russell
Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.
Proverb
Change is the parent of progress.
Steve Maraboli
If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.
Arthur Bloch
The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Ernest Renan
There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.
Christopher Hitchens
The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
Herbert Hoover
Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it rallies the stragglers, its stopping places when it meditates, contemplating some new and splendid promised land that has suddenly appeared on its horizon. It has its nights of slumber; and it is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker to see the human spirit lost in shadow, and to grope in the darkness without being able to awake sleeping progress.
Victor Hugo
Progress is the stride of God.
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.
Tryon Edwards
Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.
Gelett Burgess
When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim -- improve yourself.
Gilbert Arland
Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced.... Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year
Archibald MacLeish, "Saturday Re
The progress of the world is the history of men who would not permit defeat to speak the final word.
Joseph R. Sizoo
Progress is a tide. If we stand still we will surely be drowned. To stay on the crest, we have to keep moving.
Harold Mayfield
The biggest room in the world, is the room for improvement.
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