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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long. (James Thurber)[][]
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. (Adlai Stevenson)[][]
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft. (James Russell Lowell)[][]
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia. (Elbert Hubbard)[][]
Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge,virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled. (The Hitopadesa)[][]
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)[][]
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution. (Johann Von Goethe)[][]
The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development. (Confucius)[][]
Climb mountains to see lowlands. (Chinese Proverb)[][]
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its income. (Samuel Butler)[][]
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