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Progress

The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it cant be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it. – Anon.

When a blind man carries a lame man both go forward. – Swedish Proverb

Live to live and you will learn to live. – Proverb

Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it. – Proverb

Nobility doesnt lie in surpassing the other man, but in surpassing the previous self. – Hindu Spiritual

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother. – Susan B. Anthony

When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bulls eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim — improve yourself. – Gilbert Arland

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. – Gaston Bachelard

As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth. – Stephen Bayley

If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction. – Arthur Bloch

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better. – Christian Nevell Bovee

Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress. – Gelett Burgess

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself. – Andrew Carnegie

The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best. – Oswald Chambers