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Births

• 1921 - Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
• 1870 - William Cameron Forbes
• 1959 - Nick Cassavetes
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• 1639 - Tommaso Campanella
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• Well, as you’ve said, we cannot expect the people of China not to want to progress, so if you have an opportunity to progress, to develop your economy to a world class economy, it’s an aspiration that is natural and that, I welcome.

  Sellapan Ramanathan

  Topics in Progress
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  Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Topics in Nature, Progress

  Tags in Development, Inaction

• Because that’s just the way it is, and don’t sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can… not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.

  Thierry Henry

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Progressive

• Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind of man.

  Scott Brooks

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Poverty

• If we’re gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.

  Saul Williams

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Lie, Social

• The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

  G. K. Chesterton

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Metaphor

• Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.

  Earl Browder

  Topics in History, Progress, Society

  Tags in Interpretation

• Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

  Samuel Smiles

  Topics in Progress

• The left has come to regard common sense – the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community – as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

  Christopher Lasch

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Sense, Community

• True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in True

• There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!

  Edgar Cayce

  Topics in Progress

• The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Topics in Progress, Society

  Tags in Condition

• In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons.

  Ruth First

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Book

• All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.

  William Wells Brown

  Topics in Effort, Progress, Work

  Tags in Man

• And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

  Chauncey Wright

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Civilization, Men

• Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.

  William McKinley

  Topics in Progress

• Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Action, Welfare

• Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less than, when called forth against an excitation already in progress, it can suppress or moderate it.

  Charles Scott Sherrington

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Against, Production

• Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

  William Howard Taft

  Topics in Progress

• Progress would be wonderful – if only it would stop.

  Robert Musil

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Wonderful