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«The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.»
Author: Ernest Renan
(Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Liberty,
Progress
| Keywords:
individual liberty, postulate, postulates
«The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Progress,
Solidarity
| Keywords:
abundance, add to, provide, The test
«The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Growth,
Motivational,
Progress
«The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.»
«The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.»
Author: Gertrude Stein
(Writer)
| About:
Progress,
Science
| Keywords:
century, nineteenth, nineteenth century, twentieth, twentieths, twentieth century
«True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.»
«The only progress that knowledge allows is in enabling us to describe more and more in detail the world we see and its evolution. What matters in a world-view is to grasp the meaning and purpose of everything, and that we cannot do.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Knowledge,
Progress
| Keywords:
allows, describe, detail, enabling, evolution, grasp, in detail, more and more, world view
«The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Progress,
Reason,
World
| Keywords:
adapt, adapting, adapts, depends, persisting, persists, reasonable, Reasonable man, unreasonable
«Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Progress
| Keywords:
formerly, unquestionably, wages
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