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title: "2 Progress Reality Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [“To be born in that city is useful for only one thing: to have always known, almost instinctively, what today, with endless fine distinctions, everyone is beginning to claim: that the dream of unlimited progress is in reality a nightmare…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elena-ferrante/to-be-born-in-that-city-is-useful-for-only-one-thing-to-have-always/)

[Elena Ferrante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elena-ferrante/)

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> [Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/without-man-and-his-potential-for-moral-progress-the-whole-of-reality/)

[Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/)

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