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| Anatole France (1844 - 1924) | Natives of the Fiji Islands kill their parents when they are old. In this way they assist progress, while we retard it by founding academies. | |
| Chuck Yeager | It's called a barrier until someone breaks it. Then it's called history. | |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. | |
| H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) | Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. | |
| Henry David Thoreau | We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate. | |
| Henry Havelock Ellis | What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. | |
| Lester Thurow | Every country that has caught up has done it by copying. | |
| Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) | Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. | |
| Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971) | Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long. | |
| Plato | Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. | |
| Russell Baker (1925 - ) | Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. | |
| Thomas Sowell | Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. - ( Is Reality Optional?) | |
| Tom Robbins | Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. | |
| Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) | I have always considered that the substitution of the internal combusion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind. |
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