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“The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be overestimated; as all high intellectual work is carried on by them, and on such work material progress of all kinds mainly depends, not to mention other and higher advantages.”

Men Wells Kind Important Body Progress Society Materials Depends Higher Degrees Intellectual Advantage Labor Bread All Kinds Daily Bread

Book:The Descent of Man

Source: The Descent of Man

“Collective judgment of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgment despite collective disapproval.”

Ideas Individual Progress Depends Judgment Despite Collectives Individualism New Ideas Being Free Disapproval

Book:Theory of Economic Growth

Source: Theory of Economic Growth

“Progress depends as much on our collective differences as it does on our individual IQ scores.”

Doe Individual Differences Progress Depends Score Collectives

Book:The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies

Source: The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies

“Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.”

World Remember Knowing Progress Depends Elders Knowing Better

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends -- honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism -- these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded, then, is a return to these truths.”

May Has Beens Hard Play Values Force Challenges Progress Honesty Hard Work Depends Return Quiet Fairs Instruments Curiosity Loyalty Tolerance Inauguration Inaugural Fair Play

Author:Barack Obama

“Every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct, obliging us to depend upon reason for the assurance that our habits are really agreeable to the laws of health.”

Reason Law Social Progress Depends Habit Instinct Guidance Remove Assurance Social Progress

Author:Emily Blackwell

“If what is best in mankind, and what its progress depends on, manifests itself primarily in the individual and only secondarily in the mass, then our objectives should be to maintain such freedom as allows the individual to think and speak for himself.”

Ifs Thinking Should Individual Speak Freedom Progress Mankind Depends Speech Mass Objectives Individualism Free Thought

Author:Louis J. Halle

“If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs.”

Ifs Sometimes Progress Depends Legs Progressive Breaking Promises

Author:Jennifer Granholm

“The progress of science still depends on "a few people of vision".”

People Stills Vision Progress Depends

Book:Confessions of a Technophile

Source: Confessions of a Technophile

“Philosophers have very justly remarked that the only solid instruction is that which the pupil brings from his own depths; that the true instruction is not that which transmits notions wholly formed, but that which renders him capable of forming for himself good opinions. That which they have said in regard to the intellectual faculties applies equally to the moral faculties. There is for the soul a spontaneous culture, on which depends all the real progress in perfection.”

Said Real Soul Culture Moral Opinion Progress Depends Capable Intellectual Perfection Regard Depth Notion Philosopher Faculty Instruction Spontaneous Pupils Transmit

Author:Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando

“Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.”

Progress Depends Errors Trials Recognizing Trial And Error

Book:The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,

Source: The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,

“When the first people started to argue against slavery, for example, this was a new idea. If you crowd-source, you'd never come up with this. And so the - exactly the kind of progress we've made couldn't be made if we depend it on crowd-sourcing.”

People Ifs Firsts Kind Made Ideas Progress Example Source Depends Slavery Come Up Crowds Arguing New Ideas

Author:Rebecca Goldstein

“I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer, a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain. One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.”

“All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.”

Men Social Progress Duty Depends Neighbor Stability Reliance Social Life

Book:Facts and Visions: Twenty-four Baccalaureate Sermons

Source: Facts and Visions: Twenty-four Baccalaureate Sermons

“What may be possible for a minority of humankind, albeit at great cost, simply cannot work for the humankind. Our kind of progress depends on lacerating the Earth,on gouging out its riches, on stripping is life-sustaining skin of soil and forest”

Kind May Earth Progress Depends Cost Skins Riches Forests Soil Minorities Humankind Sustaining Stripping

Author:Jonathon Porritt

“...as I reject the old time beliefs, it is not a matter of countering belief with belief, rather I can challenge the efficacy of old beliefs with sound arguments. We believe in nature and that human progress depends on the domination of man over nature. There is no conscious power behind it. This is our philosophy.”

Men Believe Humans I Can Matter Philosophy Belief Sound Challenges Behinds Progress Depends Conscious Argument Rejects Domination Efficacy Human Progress Old Time

Book:Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation

Source: Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation

“Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.”

People World Progress Depends Unreasonable

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Profits are the lifeblood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things depend ultimately. But one man's lifeblood is another man's cancer.”

Men Progress Magic Economic Depends Good Things Cancer Profit One Man Another Man Economic Systems Elixir

Book:Coll Sci Pap V5

Source: Coll Sci Pap V5

“With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate one another as do savage tribes.”

Nations Natural Progress Depends Degrees Savages Tribes Selection Natural Selection Subordinates Civilised

Book:The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)

Source: The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)

“The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.”

Men Needs Environment Progress Depends Demand Reasonable Unreasonable Reasonable Man

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Tolerance of diversity is imperative, because without it, life would lose its savor. Progress in the arts, in the sciences, in the patterns of social adjustment springs from diversity and depends upon a tolerance of individual deviations from conventional ways and attitudes.”

Way Art Individual Social Loses Attitude Progress Depends Diversity Spring Patterns Tolerance Conventional Imperatives Adjustment Deviation Conventional Ways

Author:Alan Barth

“The direction and rhythm of human progress do not depend on the masses, even when they add up to hundreds of millions; they depend on superior minorities.”

Humans Millions Progress Depends Mass Add Superiors Rhythm Minorities Human Progress

Book:Egalitarian Envy: The Political Foundations of Social Justice

Source: Egalitarian Envy: The Political Foundations of Social Justice

“No one can predict whether the earth will be cooler or hotter next year, let alone do anything to change it. If you're afraid of global warming, turn off the lights when you leave the room - but don't participate in the corruption of science, don't scare our kids with unproven cataclysmic theories, and don't try to ban economic energy sources that people living on this planet depend upon today. And don't try to stop progress; it's the only hope the earth has of seeing clean industry, short of exterminating mankind.”

“Some land surveyors delve into land development advocacy, working with local government on behalf of clients in order to facilitate progress on a project. Others stick to strictly surveying. The approach depends on the individual firm and the needs of the local area.”

Needs Government Order Individual Progress Land Depends Development Projects Approach Areas Sticks Locals Firm Clients Behalf Advocacy Facilitate Local Government Surveyors Land Surveyor

Author:Mark Mason

“Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first...The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.”

Firsts Wells Known Progress Arms Depends Office Regard Fellows Occasions Presidential Addresses Predictions Well Known Oath Appearing Countrymen Hope For The Future Inaugural Address

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Spiritual success depends on your Conductivity. No Spiritual Conductivity, no progress!”

Spiritual Progress Depends Spiritual Success

Author:Choa Kok Sui

“Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it. Well, I'm Bob and I'm an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.”

People Ifs World Trying Humans Wells Persons Accepting Progress Depends Reasonable Bob Olympics Persist Unreasonable Human Progress Trying To Change

Author:Bob Geldof

“A lot of environmental and biological science depends on technology to progress. Partly I'm talking about massive server farms that help people crunch genetic data - or atmospheric data. But I also mean the scientific collaborations that the Internet makes possible, where scientists in India and Africa can work with people in Europe and the Americas to come up with solutions to what are, after all, global problems.”

“Progress is not automatic, it depends on what we do every day. So any statement of ownership of our own bodies, however that occurs in our individual lives or our community or our collective lives, is crucial.”

Body Life Is Individual Community Progress Depends Statements Collectives Crucial Ownership Our Community Individual Life

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not just to make discoveries.”

Important Helping Used Brain Progress Depends Discovery Helping Others

Author:Rita Levi-Montalcini

“Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.”

People Firsts Humans Self Understanding Numbers Principles Virtue Progress Human Nature Produce Depends Morality Free Market Governance Conservatism Interacting Vests

Author:Mary Matalin