Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
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Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
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The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
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When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
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Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.
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I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
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All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions.
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Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
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It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.
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Our civilization is characterized by the word progress. Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only
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