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“Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...[T]he progress of humanity, far from being the result of government, has been made entirely without its aid and in the face if its constant and bitter opposition.”

Ifs Has Beens Made Government Faces Humanity Results Progress Essence Increase Constant Aids Tendencies Bitter Opposition Permanence

Author:H. L. Mencken

“The effects of heat are subject to constant laws which cannot be discovered without the aid of mathematical analysis. The object of the theory is to demonstrate these laws; it reduces all physical researches on the propagation of heat, to problems of the integral calculus, whose elements are given by experiment. No subject has more extensive relations with the progress of industry and the natural sciences; for the action of heat is always present, it influences the processes of the arts, and occurs in all the phenomena of the universe.”

“Alzheimer's usually comes later than AIDS, but I decline to call that progress.”

Progress Aids Decline Alzheimer Alzheimer's

Author:Mason Cooley

“History says that progress often requires sacrifice, but what kind of progress can we claim when it is built on the lives of the citizens it is supposed to aid?”

Kind Progress Sacrifice Citizens Built Claims Aids

Book:The Testing 2: Independent Study

Source: The Testing 2: Independent Study