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“The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no limitations ought to be imposed upon government. The older faith, born of long ages of suffering under man's dominion over man, was that the exercise of unlimited power by men with limited minds and self-regarding prejudices is soon oppressive, reactionary, and corrupt. The older faith taught that the very condition of progress was the limitation of power to the capacity and the virtue of rulers.”

“A society that does not give importance to education cannot progress. Let there be any Government, it must have a vision to make India shine in the field of education.”

Giving Doe Government Education Vision Progress Fields India Importance Shining

Author:Narendra Modi

“Good roads, good houses, adequate electricity, good schools or good hospitals in the village are indeed, the parameters of progress. However, in my view, 100 percent literate village is the true symbol of real progress.”

Real School House Views Education Progress Percent India Symbols Hospitals Village Electricity Adequate Parameters Good School

Author:Narendra Modi

“If you read the biography of any great man, you will always notice two things: His mother's contribution in his progress and his teacher's contribution in his growth and development.”

Ifs Men Two Mother Growth Education Teacher Progress Development India Contribution Two Things Great Men Biographies

Author:Narendra Modi

“Youngsters inspired by Maoism have taken the gun and are spilling blood on streets, but our land needs the colour of progress not the colour of blood. Maoists must not have the gun in their hands, instead they must have agriculture tools and pens so that they can serve others. Raasta kalam, hal aur pasine ka hai, khoon ka nahi.”

Needs Hands Motivation Taken Progress Blood Streets Land Gun Tools Inspired Colour Pens Agriculture Youngsters Spilling

Author:Narendra Modi

“We live in time, it bounds us and defines us, and time is supposed to measure history, isn't it? But if we can't understand time, can't grasp its mysteries of pace and progress, what chance do we have with history--even our own small, personal, largely undocumented piece of it?”

Ifs Chance Pieces Progress Mystery Bounds Pace

Book:The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient despatches as the enemy falls back; then the beginning of a long, morale-sapping trudge with rations getting shorter and the first snowflakes upon your face. The enemy burns Moscow and you yield to General January, whose fingernails are very icicles. Bitter retreat. Harrying Cossacks. Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner's grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general's map.”

“Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.”

Needs Mind Real Matter Form Purpose Progress Chaos Being Real Domination

Book:The greatest minds and ideas of all time

Source: The greatest minds and ideas of all time

“The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.”

Dream Records Progress Protagonists

Book:On directing film

Source: On directing film

“Nothing is born of nothing, least of all knowledge, modernity, or enlightened thought; progress is made in tiny surges, in successive laps, like an endless relay race. But there are links without which nothing would be passed on, and for that reason, they deserve the gratitude of all who benefited from them.”

Made Reason Would Be Born Race Progress Gratitude Deserve Tiny Endless Enlightened Links Lap Modernity Relays Relay Races

Book:Origins: A Memoir

Source: Origins: A Memoir

“Without culture there can be no growth; without exertion, no acquisition; without friction, no polish; without labor, no knowledge; without action, no progress; and without conflict, no victory. The man who lies down a fool at night, hoping that he will waken wise in the morning, will rise up in the morning as he laid down in the evening.”

Men Action Lying Night Culture Growth Morning Wise Progress He Man Fool Victory Conflict Labor Evening Polish Acquisition Exertion Friction

Author:Frederick Douglass

“Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.”

Government Opportunity Progress Optimism Irresistible

Book:State of the nation address 2007

Source: State of the nation address 2007

“Try to improve. Don't expect too much, but don't feel discouraged either; keep up your enthusiasm; you will make progress.”

Feels Trying Too Much Progress Enthusiasm Discouraged

Author:Dalai Lama

“We need to make material progress, but we need inner development too ... remember that the real development we seek is not in the buildings but in our hearts and minds.”

Needs Mind Heart Real Remember Progress Building Materials Development Heart And Mind

Author:Dalai Lama

“Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.”

“Next to the Bible, the book I value most is John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. I believe I have read it through at least a hundred times. It is a volume of which I never seem to tire; and the secret of its freshness is that it is so largely compiled from the Scriptures.”

Believe Book Seems Values Next I Believe Secret Progress Hundred Scripture Volume Tire Pilgrim Freshness

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.”

Important Father Party Leader Progress Politician Democratic Democratic Party

Author:Zaha Hadid

“Spencers god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.”

Sometimes Progress Evolution

Book:Readings from Talcott Parsons

Source: Readings from Talcott Parsons

“We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty.”

People Rooms Doubt Progress Certainty

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“Only when we see that the way of God's law is absolutely inflexible will we see that God's grace is absolutely indispensable. A high view of the law reminds us that God accepts us on the basis of Christ's perfection, not our progress. Grace, properly understood, is the movement of a holy God toward an unholy people. He doesn't cheapen the law or ease its requirements. He fulfills them in his Son, who then gives his righteousness to us. That's the gospel. Pure and simple.”

Source: It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News

“Run your own race. Who cares what others are doing? The only question that matters is 'Am I progressing?'”

Matter Care Running Race Progress Who Cares

Author:Robin Sharma

“A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth act? Act that way.”

Way Self Care Artist Bits Careers Taken Progress Everyday Self Worth

Book:Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance

Source: Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance

“Dave Jones got to the final last year and lost in the semi-final this year, so progress has definitely been made”

Years Made Lasts Lost Progress Finals Last Year Dave

Author:Paul Lambert

“In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure... Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all mens happiness.”

“Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the sort whose departures for bliss eternal improved the average intelligence and decency of the race.”

Humans Deals Race Progress Crime Eternal Responsible Majority Average Punishment Bliss Overwhelming Decency Departure Capital Punishment Human Progress

Author:H. L. Mencken

“A ground frequently taken by Christian theologians is that the progress and civilization of the world are due to Christianity; and the discussion is complicated by the fact that many eminent servants of humanity have been nominal Christians, of one or other of the sects. My allegation will be that the special services rendered to human progress by these exceptional men have not been in consequence of their adhesion to Christianity, but in spite of it, and that the specific points of advantage to human kind have been in ratio of their direct opposition to precise Biblical enactments.”

Source: Has Humanity Gained from Unbelief?: Two Nights Debate Between Marsden Gibson and Charles Bradlaugh at Newcastle-on-Tyne

“And so matching by itself is incapable of creating an art of reckoning. Without our ability to arrange things in ordered succession little progress could have been made. Correspondence and succession, the two principles that permeate all mathematics - nay, all realms of exact thought - are woven into the very fabric of our number system.”

Source: Number, the Language of Science: A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-mathematician

“I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that.”

Thinking Next Progress Keys Disease Decades

Author:Bill Gates

“The pace of progress in biology creates a foundation that naturally gets picked up by the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to solve rich-world diseases. This is attractive science. It's science that people want to work on.”

People World Want Rich Progress Industry Disease Foundation Solve Attractive Biology Pace Pharmaceutical Pharmaceutical Industry Biotech

Author:Bill Gates

“We are making progress militarily, there is no doubt about that. You've seen the reports from Misrata, although reports of the Gaddafi forces completely pulling out of Misrata seem to be exaggerated.”

Seems Force Doubt Progress No Doubt Reports Pulling Exaggerated Gaddafi

Author:William Hague

“I think that we've made great moral progress in the second half of the 20th century in many respects, and particularly in relation to human rights but I think that we are losing sight of some of the values of concern for others, and self-respect and respect for others.”

Thinking Humans Made Self Values Half Moral Rights Progress Century Losing Concern Sight Relation Human Rights Self Respect 20th Century Respecting Others Concern For Others

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“My sound is constantly progressing and maturing. It's hard with all the songs that I have written over the years to compile them all into one album. It's almost impossible to categorize them into one genre.”

Years Hard Song Sound Progress Impossible Written Albums Genre Mature

Author:Asher Monroe

“Nothing lasts. So it's my belief, yes, I know a lot of the things that we liked didn't last, but maybe things we don't like, they're also not going to last. There has been progress in my lifetime. There are certainly things that are better than when I was young, and there are things that are worse. New York City, it's worse. There's no question.”

Knows Has Beens Lasts Young Belief Cities Progress New York Lifetime New York City

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“We believe unbelievable progress can be made, in both inventing new vaccines and making sure they get out to all the children who need them.”

Needs Believe Children Made Progress Unbelievable Inventing Vaccines Depopulation

Author:Bill Gates

“What's important is the tolerance. If people are not beating other people up, or shooting them for being different, then that's progress. Even if the ideas that go through their head are fodder for novelists.”

People Ifs Important Ideas Different Progress Tolerance Shooting Novelists Being Different What's Important Fodder

Author:Nell Zink

“China has seen a great deal of economic progress. It's certainly rather of a miracle. The growing role of the market in the economy will force China to open up its political system over time and to move toward a more democratic society. So taken as a whole, the one real failure in this whole business has been Russia.”

Has Beens Real Whole Moving Political Force Deals Roles Economy Taken Growing Progress Economic Miracle Democratic China Russia Political Systems Democratic Society Economic Progress

Author:Milton Friedman

“Thinking is the problem. Thinking is hazardous to your progress in life. Don't think - feel.”

Thinking Feels Problem Progress Progress In Life

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“For me, possibility, progress, growth, those things are very.. they feel very good. It doesn't usually come with negativity. I don't really mind sucking at something as long as I'm getting a little bit better at it along the way.”

Way Feels Mind Littles Long Bits Growth Progress Possibility Little Bit Very Good Negativity

Author:Demetri Martin

“The Hindus are busy letting themselves be seen riding in Cadillacs instead of smearing themselves with sandalwood paste and bowing in front of Ganpati. The Moslems would rather miss evening prayer than the new Disney movie. The Buddhists think it's more important to take over in the name of Stalin and Progress than to meditate on the four basic sorrows. And we don't even have to mention Christianity or Judaism.”

Thinking Important Names Prayer Christianity Four Progress Missing Fronts Sorrow Busy Buddhist Evening Riding Judaism Cadillacs Sandalwood Evening Prayer

Book:The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House

Source: The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House

“As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.”

Knows Long Progress Periods Areas

Author:Eric Kandel

“Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.”

Feels Play Interest Justice Progress Solutions Fairs Congress Corporate Frustrated Fair Play

Author:E. L. Doctorow

“Finished ought to be an F-word for all of us. We are all works in progress. Each day presents an opportunity to learn more, do more, be more, grow more in our lives and careers.”

Opportunity Grows Careers Our Lives Progress Ought Finished Each Day Work In Progress Opportunities To Learn

Author:Reid Hoffman

“Im not satisfied with the progress of the work, but I am happy that the talks are going on. It might have a negative effect if the United States joins.”

Ifs States Might United United States Progress Effects Negative Satisfied

Author:Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

“For those that think men make progress collectively, I warn you, history teaches: You couldn't be more wrong.”

Thinking Men Teach Progress

Author:Glenn Beck

“Thanks is part to our education system, we tend to think that we're smarter than the stupid guys in funny wigs who came before us. But that's because we are mistaking technology, progress, and access to information for intelligence. We think that because we know how to use iPhones (but not build them), browse the Internet (but not understand how it works), and use Google (but not really know anything), our educational system is working just great. By the same token, we think that those dumb aristocrats who used horses to get around and didn't have electricity were neanderthals.”

“I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress could justify such an act; I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be necessary according to whatever theory, I knew that it was not necessary and that it was wrong. Therefore, my judgments must be based-on what is right and necessary and not on what people say and do; I must judge not according to progress but according to my own heart.”

People Ifs World Heart Whole Found My Own Existence Progress Creation Judging Theory Judgment Understood Intellect I Realized Justify Rationality

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will. It allows other forces to arise side by side with and in opposition to political power. It thus becomes the basis of all those activities that are free from violent interference on the part of the state. It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.”

“Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we give our children a future of more or a future of less - this, too, is a choice.”

Giving Children Jobs Choices Progress Creation Our Children Job Creation

Author:Martin O'Malley

“Progress is impossible without change”

Progress Impossible

Author:Walt Disney

“All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and medical progress, all of which should seem to alleviate human suffering... tends instead to favor humanity's destruction.”

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