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Saturday, June 29th, 2024
the Week of Proper 7 / Ordinary 12
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Quotations regarding 'Progress'

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The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American Writer (1850-1919)
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist (1854-1900)
I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.
Maurice Wilkins, New Zealander Scientist (1916-2004)
This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.
Frances E. Willard, American Activist (1839-1898)
All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee Williams, American Dramatist (1911-1983)
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee Williams, American Dramatist (1911-1983)
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson, English Statesman (1916-1995)
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
Woodrow Wilson, American President (1856-1924)
If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied.
Charles E. Wilson, American Businessman (1886-1972)
The price of progress is trouble, and I must be making a lot of progress.
Charles Erwin Wilson, American Businessman (1890-1961)
Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.
Isaac Mayer Wise, American Clergyman (1819-1900)
The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?
Stephen Wolfram, English Scientist (1959-  )
Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.
Mary Wollstonecraft, British Writer (1759-1797)
And so we said to General Motors that the solution had to be a first year increase, which had to be sizeable because we bad to catch up with the lost position as against the cost of living and we had to make some progress.
Leonard Woodcock, American Celebrity (1911-2001)
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
Chauncey Wright, American Philosopher (1830-1875)
The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.
Francis Wright, Scottish Activist (1795-1852)
I was encouraged to hear that GM has made great progress on the hydrogen car.
Albert Wynn, American Politician (1951-  )
James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster.
Charlotte Mary Yonge, English Novelist (1823-1901)
We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.
Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese Politician (1878-1967)
The economic, social and cultural progress of a nation depends on citizens counting for more and having more rights.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Spanish Statesman (1960-  )
 
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