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There has to be a global mission of human progress. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress. -- Bryant H. McGill
Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics. -- Tony Blair
The power to question is the basis of all human progress. -- Indira Gandhi
The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress. -- Ernest Renan
Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress. -- Wynton Marsalis
Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking. -- Andre Geim
The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress. -- Rodney Stark
Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress. -- Mac Thornberry
Perhaps the spirit of adventure, be it mental or material adventure, is a factor so essential in human progress that no emphasis of it is undue. -- Archibald Hill
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress, more fully revealing himself as humans gain the capacity to better understand. -- Rodney Stark
Free enterprise capitalism has been the most powerful creative system of social cooperation and human progress ever conceived, but its perception and its role in society have been distorted. -- John Mackey
Neon Future' is, in short, a positive outlook on human progress and technology, looking forward to a bright, colorful utopia. It's embracing the future and looking toward the future in a more optimistic way. -- Steve Aoki
Freedom is the core of all human progress. It believes that nothing's given to us, but if you're willing to work hard. If you're willing to compete, the American dream is there for you. -- Connie Mack IV
This was the invention of modern American philanthropy as we know it. The idea of systematizing giving to achieve human progress was the true innovation of John D. Rockefeller, and ultimately the Rockefeller Foundation's legacy. -- Judith Rodin
Free-enterprise capitalism is the most powerful system for social cooperation and human progress ever conceived. It is one of the most compelling ideas we humans have ever had. But we can aspire to something even greater. -- John Mackey
I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world at large and make due contribution to the cause of human progress and development. -- Li Peng
In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age. -- Reed Hastings
The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke. -- David Simon
I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject. -- Paul Wolfowitz
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . . -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Human nature is a work in progress. -- Nick Bostrom
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Knowledge humanely applied makes human progress possible. -- Frank H. T. Rhodes
Human progress is achieved by taking exact measurements. -- William F. Buckley Jr.
How can you help the human race progress? -- Simon Sinek
Procrastination is a deadly weapon of human progress. -- Marvin J. Ashton
All human progress is preceded by new questions -- Tony Robbins
Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress. -- Ayn Rand
The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress. -- Bertrand Russell
Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress. -- John Clapham
Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration. -- H. L. Mencken
Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished. -- Daniel Gilbert
All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force. -- Maria Montessori
Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times. -- Barbara Hambly
health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress. -- Helen Keller
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. -- Herbert Spencer
Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages. -- H. P. Blavatsky
Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings. -- Bruce Catton
The 20th century ended with a single surviving model of human progress. -- George W. Bush
Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs. -- Frank B. Kellogg
Just as women's rights are human rights, women's progress is human progress, -- Hillary Clinton
The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature. -- Swami Vivekananda
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals. -- Madame de Stael
All important progress made by the human race has its roots in daydreaming. -- Eda LeShan
Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress. -- Ken Robinson
Happy that New York passed marriage equality tonight. A victory for human rights. Progress. -- John Legend
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. -- Don Marquis
The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible. -- William H. Seward
Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind. -- Francis Bacon
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left. -- Aldous Huxley
While the future is unknowable, the winds always blow in the direction of human progress. -- Barack Obama
Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. -- Susan Rice
The reports on human progress are beginning to come in, and some are a little discouraging. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
If human progress had been merely a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia today. -- Thomas Reed
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct. -- Petrarch
Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had. -- Marya Mannes
Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition. -- Bill Gates
The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix, and God. -- H. L. Mencken
According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress. -- Swami Vivekananda
Beginnings play their prized part in every finished human accomplishment, for beginnings mean the birth of added progress. -- Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress -- Wilferd Peterson
The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here. -- Barbara Kingsolver
I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy. -- H. L. Mencken
Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy. -- Bertrand Russell
There are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams. -- Ronald Reagan
The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken. -- Kenneth Burke
Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. -- Harold Wilson
These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs. -- Alexander Hamilton
The primary ingredient for progress is optimism. The unwavering belief that something can be better drives the human race forward. -- Simon Sinek
The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. -- Alfred de Vigny
The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. -- Alfred de Vigny
The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress. -- Murray Rothbard
The brain is conceded to be the master organ of the body, the regulator of life, the source of human progress. -- Frederick Tilney
If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself. -- Annie Dillard
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. -- John F. Kennedy
Just for being a religion at all you're as complicit as the rest in the retardation of the human intellectual progress. -- Doug Stanhope
Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom. -- Charles Sanders Peirce
The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe. -- Stephen Hawking
Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also. -- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress. -- William Feather
How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives. -- Franz Grillparzer
Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress. -- Nikolay Chernyshevsky
Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas's, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd. -- Dale Carnegie
The releasing of attachment to object and certain beliefs was already indelibly written as a very necessary step in my human progress toward being. -- Marlo Morgan
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence. -- Herbert Read
Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of [people] willing to be co-workers with God. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and poverty. -- Oscar Arias
Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, you have to face your demons. -- John Noble
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect. -- Ronald Reagan
Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential. -- Kofi Annan
There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and bend before truth. -- Paul Broca
Unless some effective supranational government can be set up and brought quickly into action, the prospects of peace and human progress are dark and doubtful. -- Winston Churchill
Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths -- Will Durant
The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought. -- Stephen Jay Gould
All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed. -- Robert Henri
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static routine of tradition continues. -- Joseph Jastrow
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. -- Anthony de Mello
I don't expect the human race to progress in too many areas. However, having a child with an ear infection makes one hugely grateful for antibiotics. -- David Bowie
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness. -- Anthony de Mello
Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place. To err is human, to make progress is divine. -- Kevin DeYoung
Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has. -- Judith Stone
It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values. -- Sathya Sai Baba
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. -- Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora
Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves - art, literature, science, religion. -- Swami Vivekananda
Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves. -- Jaron Lanier
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced. -- Victor Hugo
There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should be, in spite of progress. -- Philip Pearlstein
Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced. -- Victor Hugo
The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect. -- Felix Adler
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. -- Louis D. Brandeis
Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress. -- Theodore Levitt
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. -- Thomas Jefferson

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