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A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress." (Quote by - Anatole Broyard)

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. (Quote by - Henry Adams)

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)

Our performance during this World Cup has not been enough to progress further and both myself and all the players regret that and are hurt by that more than people realise (Quote by - David Beckham)

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. (Quote by - Edward Abbey)

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress. (Quote by - Charles Kettering)

Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door. (Quote by - Simeon Strunsky)

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul. (Quote by - Emma Goldman)

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)

Progress is a comfortable disease. (Quote by - E E Cummings)

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress. (Quote by - Sydney J. Harris)

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system. (Quote by - Herbert Hoover)

Without a struggle, there can be no progress. (Quote by - Frederick Douglass)

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. (Quote by - Henry Havelock Ellis)

Spiral! the memorable Lady terms Our mind's ascent. (Quote by - George Meredith)

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. (Quote by - Ellen Terry)

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage. (Quote by - Herbert Hoover)

Chris Tremlett has made great progress this winter - he impressed the Academy management during their training camp in Perth (Quote by - David Graveney)

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 little. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car. (Quote by - Edward de Bono)

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