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“Have you no idea of progress, of development?" "I have seen them both in an egg," said Caspian. "We call it 'Going Bad' in Narnia” quote by C.S. Lewis — Download Open image

““Have you no idea of progress, of development?" "I have seen them both in an egg," said Caspian. "We call it 'Going Bad' in Narnia””

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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of…

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

Herbert Spencer

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But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress…

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If you learn something that changes you, you've made progress. If you learn something that changes others, you've helped change the world.

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People will pay a price for putting political obstruction over progress in a time that is so critical and urgent.

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The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden were ordained by God and were a necessary part of their-and our-earthly experience. President Howard W. Hunter, then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, taught: "We came to mortal life to encounter resistance.…

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He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

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Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

Emile M. Cioran

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