Short quotations about, progress - Page 2

Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

We cross our bridges when we come t…

15 Feb , 2011  

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. Great short quote and quotation by: Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead , British dramatist & screenwriter […]

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George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004

We know that dictators are quick to…

15 Feb , 2011  

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies. Great short quote and […]

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From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)

We trained hard, but it seemed ever…

15 Feb , 2011  

We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and […]

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Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A.D.

We trained hard, but it seemed that…

15 Feb , 2011  

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised.? I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency […]

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Havelock Ellis

What we call progress is the exchan…

15 Feb , 2011  

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. Great short quote and quotation by: Havelock Ellis , English sexual psychologist (1859 – 1939)

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Where, after all, do universal huma…

15 Feb , 2011  

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home?so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: The neighbourhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where […]

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Where, after all, do universal huma…

15 Feb , 2011  

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home- so close and so smallthat they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they arethe world of the individual person: the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he […]

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