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“Nothing in our lifetimes has been more heartening than when people of the former Soviet Union and Central Europe broke the grip of communism. We have aided their progress and I am proud of it.”

People Has Beens Progress Proud Europe Unions Lifetime Former Communism Broke Soviet Soviet Union

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

“We can trace back our existence almost to a point. Former time presents us with trains of thoughts gradually diminishing to nothing. But our ideas of futurity are perpetually expanding. Our desires and our hopes, even when modified by our fears, seem to grasp at immensity. This alone would be sufficient to prove the progressiveness of our nature, and that this little earth is but a point from which we start toward a perfection of being.”

Littles Ideas Seems Would Be Earth Desire Existence Progress Prove Perfection Train Former Sufficient Expanding Immensity Train Of Thought

Author:Humphry Davy

“Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.”

Way Stills Desire Progress Objects Former Latter Felicity

Book:The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750

Source: The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750

“One cannot deny that in former times man's life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore, that modern civilization and the progress of science have greatly improved man's life and have brought comfort and ease in their trail.”

Men Progress Modern Comfort Civilization Deny Former Ease Hardship Toil Trails Modern Civilization

Author:Haile Selassie

“Take the US. Women were not even able to vote until 90 ago, at about the same time they gained the right in Afghanistan. Rights of former slaves were very limited until the 1960s, and in some ways still are. In these and other domains there has been progress in democracy, though still seriously flawed. In other dimensions - the control of concentrated wealth over the political process, for example, things have gotten much worse in recent years. And there is much more, in both directions.”

Way Years Has Beens Stills Able Political Process Wealth Democracy Rights Progress Example Vote Slave Former Dimensions Afghanistan Domain Flawed 1960s

Author:Noam Chomsky

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